Parents Claim Sesame Place Characters Snubbed Their Black Children



Outrage continues to grow with the theme park Sesame Place as a string of now-viral videos shows characters at the park seemingly ignoring Black children. NBC News’ Steven Romo reports on how one family recently spoke out claiming their children are victims of racist behavior. 

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21 comments

  1. I want my reparations mang!

  2. You can't blame Sesame Place when you see so many back children smashing and grabbing on tv and the fights at theme parks…, it's like you can't feel safe when they're around.

  3. I’m still stuck that he put his hand across that girls face like that. He got the right one cause a lot of parents would have knocked him out after that.

  4. For everyone lying about there being other videos. Saying "I didn't see them hug e white kids" here's SOME of the other videos. You guys are liars and racist choosing to pick on little black kids and their mothers you should be ashamed and you're human trash https://youtu.be/QMLAfuvt3mk

  5. Stop whining and playing the racist card all the time…😭😭😭😭😭😭

  6. How much money do you get to be a professional victim?

  7. Oh and look, that bottom feeder Crump showed up looking for some cash.

  8. Wow this is almost as bad as that mass shooting

  9. At the end of the day a bigot is a bigot and can't hide it under a costume.

  10. He could of gave the little girls high fives.he ignored them

  11. once you stop playing the victim card you are no longer a victim, something similar happened to my kids and I didn't care because I am not a victim, fixing your self-esteem is the problem here not the guy in the costume.

  12. I'm very proud of this mother for speaking up. There are many more videos of the same thing, so that actor is lying.

  13. We need white only places again make it 1950s

  14. When I was a child, I wanted to live on Sesame Street. Maybe not now, though.

  15. I find it hard to believe the person inside the suit couldn’t see the girls. The mouth was literally at eye level with the 2 girls, she waved no in their direction, (making it seem like she was waving no to just the other women), and very clearly saw them because otherwise why didn’t she run into them accidentally? I thought you didn’t see them? Quite obvious what happened.

  16. oh you don't like me because im green huh

  17. Put yourself in a costume, he towers over these girls, walks down the parade and just does a set of hand movements to everyone, his eyes fogged up cuz it's so hot most likely.l

  18. I’m sorry but if a theme park character slapped my child in the face “playful” or not we are having some ISSUES

  19. Awe that sea-foam-green monster thing is kind of a c**t.

  20. I am disgusted by what I see here but contrary to what’s said near the end Sesame Street was not created entirely to represent the welfare of black children but rather to emphasize the entire human race as a whole. I understand how strong the anger can be felt but in this case exaggerations are being made to the point of fabricating origins which solves nothing.