More videos showing the park’s costumed characters acting inappropriately toward Black children are emerging, and the parent company is now treading water. Sesame Place might not be such a friendly neighborhood after all.
Since the first video surfaced of Rosita allegedly ignoring two young Black girls at Sesame Place in Pennsylvania, a few more clips have emerged. These new ones appear to show more of the same, namely that the mascots mistreat or ignore children of color.
One, in particular, is pretty crazy because it depicts one of the Honkers charging a young African-American girl and essentially knocking her down with its belly.
Sesame Workshop has released a statement on their Instagram page saying that they are aware of the situation and are taking it seriously.
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Sesame Workshop Videos Allegedly Show Racism From The Workers
In a different video, Bert can be seen high-fiving kids in a line before blatantly refusing to do the same for an older Black girl, who reacts by staring at the camera in shock.
Even though there are more accounts of the same behavior, none of them appear to be as well-defined as the one that went viral this past weekend. It was a misunderstanding, according to Sesame Place, and they have apologized to the family to make it right.
However, watching the clips, it is difficult to decipher whether these were intentional or just clips that were cherry-picked to make it appear as though they were actually being racist. I find it hard to believe that they would blatantly act like that in front of the children and their parents. Are there other videos showing the same thing happening to children of other ethnicities?
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What do you think? Are there really racist people working at these parks or were these just cherry-picked videos that allegedly show racism? Let us know in the comments below.
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