accusations of racism after a viral video showed an employee snubbing two black girls at the Pennsylvania theme park last weekend.
Defenders of the “Sesame Street” establishment said the incident may have been an unintentional one-off, but several other clips have surfaced showing similarly problematic behavior.
The videos — several of which were recorded by other black visitors to the Pennsylvania park in recent weeks — were shared by the popular Instagram account @frobabies, which posed the question: “Is this a pattern?”The Post has reached out to Sesame Place for comment.One heartbreaking video shows an excited black boy being ignored by an employee dressed up as Sesame Street’s Rosita — the same character who snubbed the black girls in the original viral clip.
The boy’s mom, Cydney Moore, told The Post that she and her family flew from North Carolina specifically to visit Sesame Place, as “Sesame Street” is her 2-year-old son’s “favorite show.”“It was heartbreaking,” Moore said of the moment Rosita snubbed her toddler. “To see the look on my son’s face after he was ignored and overlooked was devastating.
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