A mother is not happy after a recent trip to Sesame Place! She is calling them out after a person in a “Rosita” costume dismissing two Black Kids

[REDLINE]

Sesame Place hit with a $25 million racial discrimination lawsuit

A Baltimore family has filed a $25 million lawsuit against Sesame Place over allegations of racial discrimination.

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Sesame Place hit with $25 million racial discrimintation lawsuit

The class action civil rights lawsuit alleges that multiple costumed staff at the Sesame Street themed amusement park ignored a 5-year-old Black girl during a meet-and-greet.
By Justine BrowningJuly 28, 2022 at 02:01 PM EDT



A Baltimore family has filed a $25 million lawsuit against Sesame Place over allegations of racial discrimination.
The class action civil rights lawsuit alleges that multiple costumed members of staff at the Sesame Street themed amusement park ignored a 5-year-old Black girl during a meet-and-greet in June.
According to legal documents obtained by EW, the filing claims that four employees dressed as Sesame Street characters Elmo, Ernie, Telly Monster, and Abby Cadabby refused to engage with Quinton Burns, his daughter Kennedi Burns and other Black guests during the June 18 event. The Burns family maintains the employees were "ignoring them and all other Black guests in attendance."

Sesame Place in Langhorne, Pa.

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The motion was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against the owners of Sesame Place, SeaWorld Parks for "pervasive and appalling race discrimination."

In a press conference on Wednesday, Malcolm Ruff, an attorney for the family, urged SeaWorld for transparency and to indemnify the Burns family over the alleged racial discrimination.
"We stand before you here today simply trying to fight and protect little Black children and their fundamental civil rights," Ruff said.
In a statement, Sesame Place says they will review the lawsuit and "are committed to deliver an inclusive, equitable and entertaining experience for all our guests."
The news comes after a video taken at Sesame Place in Langhorne, Pa. this month spread across social media and quickly went viral. The footage appeared to show an employee dressed as the character of Rosita seemingly avoiding two Black children during a parade at the park.
The family subsequently hired a legal team and called for the unnamed actor to be terminated from the park.

Representatives for Sesame Place have released multiple statements since the widely publicized incident and have vowed to "conduct training for our employees so they better understand, recognize, and deliver an inclusive, equitable, and entertaining experience to our guests."
The park also stated that the actor behind Rosita maintains the "no" hand gesture seen in the video "was not directed to any specific person, rather it was a response to multiple requests from someone in the crowd who asked Rosita to hold their child for a photo which is not permitted."

The story has gained the attention of stars like Kelly Rowland and Whoopi Goldberg, who addressed the matter on The View.

Damn 25 million!

I'm about to bring my kids there so they can not hug them.

 

[gdatruth]

Props to that family. The sesame brand is global and now it's trash. How did a fucked up brand like Seaworld get ownership of that ip anyway.

seasame street is in the entertainment/child education business

makes sense they would liscence their characters and intellectual property to a business that specializes in amusement parks…same way Harry Potter liscence is owned by Universal studios at theme parks

disney is one of the companies that Liscence a it’s characters but that’s partially due amusement parks being a fundamental part of their business

 

[gdatruth]

watching the videos (plural) I guess I shouldn’t be surprised the white lady caping

how the fuck you acknowledge/greet the white kids but just so happen to miss the black kids…happy the brother called it out the actress’s had was down when she ignored the black kids

 

[Coldchi]

Damn 25 million!

I'm about to bring my kids there so they can not hug them.

them characters bout to start huggin every black child they see......

 

[gdatruth]

them characters bout to start huggin every black child they see......

i bet you in a couple of years once the dust has settled to avoid these situations and biases these characters wont be allowed to hug or interact with kids at all in parks. you cannt train or educate racism outta someone. So the parks will just say fuck it dont hug or high 5 anyone to cover their bases. White parents will find out, cry about it cause their kids will be negavitely impacted by these policies and blame black ppl for the change in policy

 

[REDLINE]

them characters bout to start huggin every black child they see......

Kids are gonna have to get restraining orders on Sesame Street characters because those fuckers are gonna follow kids home tucking them in when they go to sleep just to make sure that the kids got enough affection!

 

[REDLINE]

i bet you in a couple of years once the dust has settled to avoid these situations and biases these characters wont be allowed to hug or interact with kids at all in parks. you cannt train or educate racism outta someone. So the parks will just say fuck it dont hug or high 5 anyone to cover their bases. White parents will find out, cry about it cause their kids will be negavitely impacted by these policies and blame black ppl for the change in policy

Damn you're right and I didn't even think of that! They probably won't be interacting with kids anymore, they'll all be walking past the kids like

 

[TEN]

seasame street is in the entertainment/child education business

makes sense they would liscence their characters and intellectual property to a business that specializes in amusement parks…same way Harry Potter liscence is owned by Universal studios at theme parks

disney is one of the companies that Liscence a it’s characters but that’s partially due amusement parks being a fundamental part of their business

minus whale

 

[Coldchi]

Chucky Cheese..................didnt u learn anything? Or did the mufucka who was under the costume at Sesame Street also work part time at Chucky Cheese?

 

[dik cashmere]

@playahaitian

 

[playahaitian]

@playahaitian

Too little too late

In fact just because they took so long

I hope they find more families and more footage and file a class action suit.

Thus NEVER needed to happen in the first place

And never needed to be handled so poorly after the fact

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

Too little too late

In fact just because they took so long

I hope they find more families and more footage and file a class action suit.

Thos NEVER needed to happen in the first place

And never needed to be handled so poorly after the fact

they KNOW that insecure racist bullshit was embedded in that

workplace environment.... they probably moved some people around

and NOW are ready for the cover up!!

Like I said I think its good to have a wake up call every now and then,

sometimes my people get too comfortable and forget,

who they are, and their roll in this psychological war,

for our minds.. Our children aint having that shit...

the next generations aint gonna be about that turn the other cheek shit..