Sesame Place apologizes after character appears to ignore Black girls in viral video

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22. I think the point here

was that performer of this character ( "Rosita" ) was literally "touching" everyone else along that line of people EXCEPT them. The stills I posted show physical contact. And because of that, the little girls were reaching out to be able to do the same.

How can you explain that other children and adults get to "touch" but you can't? The stills clearly show the performer engaging others who "reached out" to touch the costumed hand of the character and the character returned the touch.

This particular character is supposed to be a bilingual Mexican American child.

How I Made It: A Trip To Sesame Street With Rosita


By Alejandra Salazar Sep 8, 2020




If you want to get to Sesame Street, just ask Rosita. The bright, fuzzy turquoise muppet made history as the show’s first full-time bilingual muppet in 1991 and has been a regular member of the Sesame Street cast ever since.

Rosita —whose full name is Rosita, la Monstrua de las Cuevas— originally hails from the caverns of Mexico. The now 5-year-old arrived on Sesame Street on the show’s 23rd season. Since then, she’s been involved in different storylines, including teaching the Spanish Word of the Day, appearing in outreach for military families, and most recently encouraging kids and their parents to participate in the 2020 census.

The character is the brainchild of muppeteer Carmen Osbahr, who moved from Mexico to New York City’s Kaufman Studios to create and play Rosita. Osbahr still brings the muppet to life to this day. In this installment of our How I Made It series, Osbahr and Rosita discuss their journeys to Sesame Street and revisit their greatest adventures after almost 30 seasons on the friendliest block on television.

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https://www.latinousa.org/2020/09/08/rosita/

The family of the girls has hired a lawyer. This place can easily become toast. Guaranteed word of mouth from the black community could sink them although like similar incidents such as this, often some type of "settlement" tends to happen because of what is already bad press - not just for the parks, but for the namesake show associated with the parks, whose original purpose was to bring "inclusion" of urban children of all races, genders, ethnicities, religions, and abilities, to a "safe place" where their cultures are not only "seen" but appreciated and serve as a teaching tool -

Family from viral Sesame Place video hires lawyer, says kids were 'mistreated' by Rosita actor

The family's lawyer says they "will not hasten to exercise every remedy under the law to hold this theme park accountable."


By Nick Romano July 19, 2022 at 09:40 AM EDT


The family at the center of the now-viral Sesame Place video has hired a lawyer after both the Philadelphia amusement park and Sesame Workshop issued statements on the matter.

B'Ivory LaMarr of the B'Ivory LaMarr Trial Lawyers firm confirmed in a statement that he has taken on the family of the two African-American girls "who were intentionally mistreated by a Sesame Place employee during a parade."

Leslie Mac, a comms director at The Frontline, and the mother, who goes by Jeezy on Instagram, both posted video of the two kids in question waiting for a Rosita actor to walk by them during a parade at Sesame Place on Saturday. According to the mother, the Rosita actor refused the kids when they went in for hugs and "then proceeded to hug the little white girl" next to them.

"We are appalled, both, by the actions of the performer and the lack of accountability and audacity of the Sesame Place theme park to defend such egregious actions," LaMarr said. "We will not hasten to exercise every remedy under the law to hold this theme park accountable for what we construe as nothing short of intentional mistreatment to their minority patrons."

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https://ew.com/tv/viral-sesame-place-rosita-video-family-hires-lawyer/