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Sesame Place— Real World Racism At A Children’s Theme Park…
Black children are being ignored, and in some cases, assaulted.
According to Wikipedia, Sesame Place is a children’s theme park and water park, located on the outskirts of Philadelphia in Middletown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Sesame Place has been around for over 40 years, but fortunately, I never heard of it. While I did grow up watching Sesame Street, I never knew there was a theme park dedicated to the Jim Henson created puppets.
I have seen at least five clips online that show Black children, as young as toddlers, being ignored by the adults in puppet costumes. In most instances, they ignore the Black children, but interact with white, or non-Black children, standing right next to the Black children. This makes it clear that this is racist behavior.
This is the clip that set the ball rolling.
In the now-viral clip, uploaded to social media platform Instagram, the adult dressed as the puppet, Rosita, who ironically is the show’s first bilingual puppet (surely to add…
