‘Sesame Street’ character accused of racism at Philadelphia theme park

• Sesame Street is one of the most beloved children’s shows.
• Sesame Place Philadelphia theme park is being accused of racism.
• A character dressed as Rosita in their parade appeared to ignore two little girls.

Sesame Street is one of the most beloved children’s shows in the world. It teaches values ​​and also shows entertaining educational content featuring muppet characters like the Cookie Monster and Count Dracula.

A person dressed as the Sesame Street character, Rosita was recently accused of racism at one of the show’s theme parks in Philadelphia. The video of the incident has gone viral and people want answers since, according to them, the character appeared to ignore two little Black girls, while greeting other children.

What happened at Sesame Street Place Philadelphia?

One of the characters in the parade was Rosita, a blue monster. Since they are botargas all the kids want to say hi and hug them. Some little girls wanted greet her, not expecting to be ignored. The moment was caught on video.

At the Sesame Place Philadelphia theme park, two little Black girls were there to have fun and meet their favorite characters. However, Rosita refused to stop to say hello, and she was accused of being racist and appearing to snub the girls. FILED FROM: character Sesame Street discrimination

Was a Sesame Street character racist?

The moment when the Rosita character appeared to refuse to stop for the little girls went viral on social media and caused outrage among internet users. WATCH THE VIDEO BY CLICKING HERE

On Instagram, a person with the username @_jodiii_ shared the exact moment when the botarga passed by the two little girls, who were her daughters. The character was greeting everyone, but when she arrives at the two girls, she motions «No» with her hand. FILED UNDER: character Sesame Street discrimination

Girls’ mother complains on Instagram

The Instagram user, who turned out to be the mother of the girls Rosita refused to greet, shared the video on Instagram with the caption: «I’m going to keep posting this, because this made me angry. We were on our way out of Sesame Place and the kids wanted to stop to see the characters.”

“THIS DISGUSTING person blatantly told our daughters NO and then proceeded to hug the white girl next to us! Then when I went to complain about it, they looking at me like I was crazy. I asked the lady who the character was and I wanted to see a supervisor and she told me SHE DIDN’T KNOW!! FILED UNDER: character Sesame Street discrimination

The girls’ mom was furious

“I will never step foot in @sesameplace again! And please feel free to repost this. Actually, run me my money back. so mad I stopped the video, but I got so mad when she blatantly told them no,”  finished the post.

Other users commented with messages of support and someone even reported that they went through the same thing” “I am very sorry that your girls have gone through that. I will definitely skip and not take my son there!” «The same thing happened to us when we went, I thought I was just being sensitive or something, but that’s real.» FILED UNDER: character Sesame Street discrimination