What do you think about the news story about Sesame Place being racist?
There was a story on my local news for the past day or so about a woman who was at Sesame Place with her two children and the costumed character waved the children off when they tried to interact with it (the character).
The woman is now suing Sesame Place. This evening on the news there is at least one more video showing something similar occurring with someone else.
It is black children who are being looked past. I realize that these videos are out of context, and there may be other children of other races that have experienced the same thing.
The mother of the children has requested that the employee that was in the costume be fired. The second video that emerged this evening was the same costumed character, but it’s not clear whether or not the same employee was in the costume both times.
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