Parents, celebrities and activists are outraged after a video surfaced of a Sesame Street character ignoring two young Black girls at the Sesame Place theme park in Philadelphia over the weekend.
Sesame Place has since apologized to the family after the video of the girls being ignored by Sesame character Rosita went viral. The nine second video, originally posted by Jodi Brown, the girl's mother and aunt, shows the bilingual Sesame character Rosita waving and high-fiving both children and adults at the parade before getting to the two Black children and seemingly telling them "No" before waving them off. The girls respond to the presumed rejection with visible confusion and disappointment. Their family said they had traveled all the way from Brooklyn to attend the parade at Sesame Place.
