Posted on 08/02/2022 4:01:17 AM PDT by Morgana
The mascot for a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in New Jersey has become the latest costumed character to be accused of racism.
The incident on July 30 occurred when Natyana Muhammad took her children to the chain's location in Wayne, New Jersey - and the employee playing Chuck E. Cheese allegedly ignored her daughter during a meet-and-greet period.
She posted a video of the encounter to Twitter which shows the employee walk past as a small child holds her hand out for a high-five. Muhammad wrote of the incident: 'My 2-year-old was racially discriminated against.'
'As you can see, he gives all of the [white] kids [high fives] and PURPOSELY ignored my black baby.'
Muhammad, who goes by Umm Safa on Twitter, claims when she confronted the person playing the musical mouse, he ignored her and the restaurant's manager, who she named as Angie Valasquez, 'made excuses for him'.
It comes after a similar incident where two other black girls from New York were apparently snubbed by Rosita at the Sesame Street theme park in Langhorne, outside Philadelphia.
But many have questioned whether the alleged acts of racism could instead be chalked up to the fact that staff members are often wearing unwieldy costumes with low visibility - therefore making them unable to see every child reaching out for attention.
This latest video shows the woman's daughter popping up and down before attempting to high five Chuck E. The character clearly high fives several other kids before walking past the young girl.
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It never seems to occur to them that Caucasians, Hispanics, Asians, et al. receive bad or indifferent service too. Just read a random selection of restaurant reviews on Yelp and you are sure to see complaints about bad, rude, hostile, indifferent service received by members of EVERY group. Most people will give a place a few tries, and if service is consistently bad, they stop patronizing that place and go elsewhere.
That’s my take. Whoever is in the costume looks bored and disinterested in general, but I agree it does look like a deliberate snub. Appears the mascot looks right at her and ignores her. Still not a story worthy of international coverage.
If your child requires validation from Chuck E. Cheese to be emotionally stable, you have failed as a parent.
Completely and utterly failed.
Chuck E. Cheese, for God’s sake.
You know, peripheral vision probably isn’t all that good in those costumes....
What’s next, accusing an NFL footballer of racism because he didn’t sign some kids football, maybe that Broadway actress didn’t stop to take a selfie with little Shanequa, so said actress must be canceled and sued. It’s coming. Once a new scheme is hatched it’ll spread like wildfire.
“It is better to get rid of costumed character.”
Why should a successful company revise a model that has worked for decades just to appease one racist bitch? I am SICK of these people. They have been running our lives far too long.
Excellent point!
“That’s my take. Whoever is in the costume looks bored and disinterested in general, but I agree it does look like a deliberate snub. Appears the mascot looks right at her and ignores her. Still not a story worthy of international coverage.”
To the MSM any story that supports the narrative that America is systemically racist is worth reporting.
The little girl was so dressed up and excited. What kind of prik would deliberately do that to a kid?
Looks like the kid is pointing at Chuck E. Do two year olds high five? Is that a Chuck E Cheese thing?
Invent your own grift. Stop piggy backing on the grift innovations of others.
VICTIMHOODLUMS!
I haven’t seen the video of the Sesame Street or this incident, but as someone who wore some of these types of costumes in my youth I can tell you, you see VERY VERY little when you are in them, which is why nearly all places have a handler with the character... The field of vision in the ones I wore were very tight, very easy to miss someone standing right next to you.... bump into a kid, or step on a child, etc....
The assumption that racism is behind a child not being seen or interacted with by a person in a costume makes me laugh. Is it possible the person wearing the costume is a flagrant racist? Sure it’s possible, is it likely? No.
And lawsuits? Seriously? Does anyone think that the executives at Chuck E Cheese or Sesame Place are instructing their workers to avoid interactions with children of various races? Insanity.
My 2nd Son got a job at Chuckee Cheese as his first job. He was given the job of Chuckee a few times. One afternoon, he had the role of Chuckee and some kid kept yanking his cheese tail over and over. He turned around real fast and the brat ended up on the floor.
I heard people laughed, and one woman yelled “ Now that is one mean Cheese”.
He was fortunate people were not lawsuit crazy back then. It did end his career in the Cheese bidness.
It looks to me like he high fived the kids that got on the raised space, the platform or stage. The eye holes the characters look through do not have a good field of view and miss areas at the periphery or low. While the character’s head bobs this does not evidence he saw the child even though a person without a mask on would have if positioned similarly. The mom should have picked up the child.
That’s why they get the kids on stage and why they always have an unobtrusive minder with them. That kid was more likely to get stepped on than high fived.
Everyone jump on the payout bandwagon!
A prick that didn’t see her because he/she was looking through mesh and tiny eyeholes. You are entirely too ready to trash this performer without walking a mile in his suit.
This will end the mascot era. lawsuits for stupid reasons made by woke style grifters of the worst kind ruin everything.
We have no such thing as “get over it” anymore. A prime example is Lizard Cheney and that crew of a holes on her “I will never get over it” panel.
So true
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