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As if black children didn’t already suffer a tremendous disadvantage merely by, you know, being born as black children, now they must suffer the unbearable agony of being snubbed by Muppets and giant cartoon mice.
About two weeks ago, a black mother named Jodi Brown received national attention by posting a video of her two young daughters apparently being snubbed by a giant hairy blue Muppet known as “Rosita” — to my knowledge, the only bilingual Muppet whose origin story says she was born in Mexico — at the Sesame Place theme park in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, which is about a half-hour drive north of Philadelphia. (more…)