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The Sesame Street Controversy, Explained

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Sesame Street, has issued two apologies following accusations of racism.In a video released online, Rosita, a character from the , is shown ignoring two Black girls during a parade over the weekend.

The girls are both wearing backpacks: One featuring Cookie Monster and the other Abby Cadabby. The girls were excited to meet Rosita, who waved to other guests but shook its head and appears to say “no” when passing the girls.

The shocked adult who was with the two girls shared the video on their and wrote a caption describing what happened.“I’m going to keep posting this, because this had me hot,” the caption says. “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 kids NO then proceeded to hug the little white girl next to us! Then when I went to complain about it, they looking at me like I’m crazy," the caption continues. "I asked the lady who the character was and I wanted to see a supervisor and she told me SHE DIDNT KNOW !!

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