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 could just be possible that the mascot didn’t see the little girl.
The perpetual victim class who, in reality, tends mostly to victimize others.
That is what I’m thinking. There is not great vision in those masks.
They’re nothing without their victimhood.
Time for kids’s birthday brawl!
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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This is truly the most pressing problem in the world today.
Please. Chuck E. Cheese has a long history of racism and it's beyond me how this mascot can show his whiskered face in public. I'd look to settle this complaint ASAP!
When a costume character not high fiving a child makes international news, you know the world is deranged.
Clearly only a judgement of $25 million and a shut down of all Chuck E Cheeses across the nation will rectify this atrocity.
Going forward all costumed characters will be forbidden to interact with any child lest some greedy, aggrieved parent tries to buy an early retirement on the unintentional slight
The world didn’t need costumed characters, anyway.
Simple answer. No longer have mascots high five anybody. Zilch. Problem solved.
As usual, a small minority ruins it for everybody.
By not interacting with the customer the company can still be accused of racism.
It is betrer to get rid of costumed character.
I when to the fights the other night and A Chuckie Cheese Pizza broke out.
“It could just be possible that the mascot didn’t see the little girl.”
Possibly, but it looked to me like he purposely avoided her.
Just think of all the things our nation could be putting their time, energy, and resources into if not for the constant siphoning of it all by ‘racism’ investigations and claims. Diversity is the gift that keeps on stealing.
Not a lawyer here and haven’t examined all the evidence but, can we assume the employee wearing the costume was, er…NOT a person of color? I mean, this is New Jersey after all. Again, I’m no lawyer but on the surface it would appear it’s an uphill battle to prove bias with a black man. Not that logic has anything to do with it
Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!
I don’t care. Her last name is Muhammad so she should be living in a Muslim country — not here. Plus she ends a sentence with a preposition. Whining racist bitch. Does she even get that it’s because of people like her that we hate them?
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