Sesame Place accused of racism, facing backlash over viral video

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posted a video online showing a character appearing to snub her two Black daughters.The now-viral video — shared by the outraged mother on Instagram — shows her young daughters being ignored by the Rosita character from “Sesame Street” after they reached out their arms for a high-five.The original clip has been viewed almost 388,000 times and another re-post on social media has over 5.5 million views, which even caught the attention of Destiny’s Child singer Kelly Rowland.The footage shows the Muppet apeparing to high-five and hug the other kids around them, but skipping the young black children.“I’m going to keep posting this, because this had me hot,” the girl’s mother, posting under the Instagram handle @__jodiii__, wrote on Saturday.The Post has reached out to Sesame Place Philadelphia for comment.“We were on our way out of sesame place and the kids wanted to stop to see the characters,” she explained in the post.“THIS DISGUSTING person blatantly told our kids NO then proceeded to hug the little white girl next to us!” she continued.“Then when I went to complain about it, they looking at me like I’m crazy.

I asked the lady who the character was and I wanted to see a supervisor and she told me SHE DIDNT KNOW!”The clip immediately sparked outrage online, with users furious over the interaction, accusing the Sesame Place employee wearing the Rosita costume of racism.“Okay so had that been me, that whole parade would have been in flames,” Destiny’s Child singer Kelly Rowland said in disbelief via her Instagram stories.“Like, are you serious?

You’re not going to speak to my child? And did you see that baby’s face at the end? The little one with the pink on? She deserves an explanation.”Sesame Place Philadelphia posted a.