Sesame Place theme park in Bucks County, Pennsylvania has been a hot topic this week after a video of one of its characters seemingly ignoring two young Black girls went viral. The families of the children at the center of the video hired an attorney and are demanding further action
Jodi Brown, who posted the video online, and her 6-year-old niece were joined by attorney B’Ivory LaMarr for a press conference outside Sesame Workshop in New York City on Wednesday (July 20). LaMarr insisted the outrage wasn’t about money but rather a matter of principle.
“You told these kids for years ‘come and play, everything’s OK, friendly neighbors there, that’s where we meet, can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?'” LaMarr said. “And once these kids figure out how to get to Sesame Street … they reach out in open arms to these friendly neighbors, for what? To be dismissed? To be rejected? And to leave your park inferior.”
T.I. is one of the many reacting to the situation on social media. Taking to Instagram, the Hustle Gang boss posted a TikTok video of a woman who used to play similar characters at Busch Gardens in Florida. She adamantly called foul on the statement from Sesame Place, which read in part, “The costumes our performers wear sometimes make it difficult to see at lower levels and sometimes our performers miss hug requests from guests.”
She explained it was actually easy to notice children even in the costume and didn’t buy Sesame Place’s excuse. She also pointed out the character, Rosita, could see the little girl perfectly as she was waving her hand “no” at the child.
Tip wrote in the caption, “WKWTFGO!! [We Know What The Fuck Going On] @sesameplace @sesameplaceca What’s the play?”
The nine-second viral video was posted to Instagram on Saturday (July 16) by Brown, the mother of the other young girl. It showed Rosita high-fiving a white child and woman, then gesturing “no” and walking away from the two girls who had their arms stretched out for a hug and high-five during the parade at Sesame Place. LaMarr said he has further documentation from the incident and would consider releasing it depending on Sesame Place’s action.
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“We have information that we possess,” LaMarr added. “We are going to give this company, they got less than 12 hours to come out with information with a very genuine and authentic apology – or we’re going to put out evidence showing exactly what took place in addition to the video you’ve already seen.”
Well here we go, now no kids will ever get to see mascot characters again because BLM is suing Elmo.
It’s not BLM or kkk, it’s a dickhead in a suite ruining a child’s day!
Lmaooo black people out here fighting with thepupper babies bc kf ‘racism’ lmaooo. How much lower in victimization do you guys wanna present yourselves tothe world. Absolutely pathetic
Naw yall on this site crying about something that don’t concern ur azz……… now that’s pathetic !!!
Noone crying just keeping it real. Mfs complain about puppets now like ssy sme to the place and move on
This really makes black people look bad as a group. They will do ANYTHING to play the role of the victim. This is worse than when they said highways are racist because black people cant afford cars. Stop creating imaganiry enemies and systems to claim you are the victim just to make a profit.
Why are u on this black site if you got issues with the way black folks move…….. ya clown, mind ya business !!
This site’s, it’s owned by a major record label not a race
A black site? Funny how you can claim such thing, imagine if white people claimed some site as white only? Funny how that works.
Let’s check their last years tax return and financial situation if this is not about money
just go back to jim crow laws. its basically what you want anyway
I’m sure they weren’t the only black kids there. I’m sure the muppet high five some black children. Smh..
Wow that loser is really suing over nothing did they think maybe it’s summer and inside that costume is probably 110 degrees. Guy is just waving at people
uhh ohh you dun angered tip the stick. dudes irrelevant af
TI the guy who had an Arsenal that can kill every kid in his city and somehow got off free and is a scumbag fake comedian now
Dude got busted with weapons silencers and coca got away scott free.
The kids would have forgotten about the whole thing if their mother wasn’t an opportunist and social media wasn’t’ full of dumbasses (including Tip).
The small hats have taught black people about victimization alright. Yet it was the small hats who ran the transatlantic slave trade.
White people know black people love them. Black people are more loyal to whites than they are to other black people. Black people hate black people more than they hate white people.
This is just a way for people to make money, if my white child was snubbed by one of the characters, would I be able to sue too? Disgusting, this is getting out of hand, enough already.
A Dumb Bitch! If You Saw The Entire Clip Posted The Attorney Said It Wasn’t About Money… More So Accountability… Stop Reading ONLY The Headlines And Actually Read And Or Watch Videos Posted… Your Ignorance Is Not Fundamental…
I think it was great because of everything going on black people think everyone owns them something they need to work like the rest and stop live off the government if u want what white people have then work for it
Stop Robin people and stolen just work and u can have things to
Your really illiterate…take time to edycate yourself because you look really stupid
T I is a big asset cry baby always crying
U need to get some nuts u big over pay big month
Your little ass isit shit just a what a be gangster
Just do u and stay out of people business..
Why are so many white folks commenting on a hip hop website?
Bc we can do and comment whereever we want to.. that’s why
who knows if they had some racist person in the suit or what the situation was. it’s a suit that some flunkie at a theme park wears it doesn’t have AI programmed in from sesame street so it’s hard to understand how exactly sesame street is involved in this. it could have been the hamburgular or one of the banana splits from what i saw. no excuse for what the mascot did that could scar a child for life honestly but I’m not sure it’s on sesame street what one creep did