Posted on 07/28/2022 5:44:33 PM PDT by Morgana
A new video shows the moment a Sesame Street theme park employee allegedly snubbed a five-year-old black girl as her father sues for $25 million.
Quinton Burns claims four employees dressed as Sesame Street characters ignored his daughter, Kennedi, and other black guests during a meet-and-greet on June 18.
The video opens with the costumed characters dancing in a parade as the employee dressed as the Telly Monster walked over to wave and shake the hands of several children.
Among the kids in the group was Kennedi, who tried reaching out to the character before he walked away and waved his hand to other spectators. Kennedi then turns around to her father with a big frown on her face.
Moments later, an employee dressed as Ernie was seen greeting the same group, but also stops just short of shaking hands with Kennedi.
Sesame Place has explained that the alleged snubbing was not intentional and that the employees in these incidents simply can't see everyone due to the costume's limited field of vision.
Just looking at her face, it makes me want to cry every time I see it,' Burns said during a press conference Wednesday.
The suit, which seeks class action status, was filed in a federal court in Philadelphia against SeaWorld Parks, the owner of the Sesame Place, for 'pervasive and appalling race discrimination.'
It comes after a viral video showing two other black girls from New York apparently being snubbed by Rosita during a parade at the park in Langhorne, outside Philadelphia.
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Simple. Stop the parades. That’ll make the race baiters happy. 🤣
Signs of a dying society.
A well organize race scam to black mail Sea World. I bet they’re hoping for a big settlement. Rev Al would be proud.
That’s exactly what will happen now.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Does he think they see with their costume eyes? I’m sure visibility is limited. Oh...and get over it.
That is the only way to prevent this crap.
Simple: Ask yourself, would a white kid be able to sue like this? Would they “settle out of court” with a white kid in the same circumstance? Why not make an example of the shyster/race-baiter lawyer, by charging him with Extortion?
Just wait till all these black whiners find out the characters were sported by black employees….
These costumes do disrupt the peripheral vision - I mean you literally have to turn your head in order to see around you.
Maybe the kid was just plain ugly or unsanitary.
This is what Sesame Place gets for hiring KKK members to don muppet costumes. ;)
I hope this father gets nothing. I guess he’s asking for the moon and hoping for a settlement. But it’s ridiculous to suggest that there is some conspiracy by this organization to ignore black children. And even if they actually had a racist muppet, how is that an actionable offense? How can you prove that? But I guess proof is so yesterday. It’s all about feelings now. I bet memos will be going out and meetings will be had by SP to lavish attention on the black children.
Deny the ghetto lottery attempt. Those two short clips show another hundred children of all ethnicities being ignored. Especially the opposite side where this cretin of a father is standing.
They should boycott.
Last time I was at Disneyland (I was 6 years old)
I remember punching one of the characters repeatedly cause the costume was squishy or something.
The evil Mickey smacked me pretty hard
If my father had seem that he would have whipped my ass
Good Grief
I wore the great Root Bear costume. You have NO idea just how little you can see
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