{"id":253451,"date":"2022-07-20T13:58:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T13:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/more-videos-emerge-of-sesame-place-characters-allegedly-snubbing-black-children"},"modified":"2022-07-20T13:58:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T13:58:24","slug":"more-videos-emerge-of-sesame-place-characters-allegedly-snubbing-black-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/more-videos-emerge-of-sesame-place-characters-allegedly-snubbing-black-children","title":{"rendered":"More videos emerge of Sesame Place characters allegedly snubbing Black children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sesame Street-based theme park, Sesame Place, has come under fire after more clips emerged of mascots appearing to snub Black children.The theme park in Philadelphia has faced allegations of racism towards Black children as multiple videos have emerged of mascots dressed up as characters from the TV show 16 ignoring children of colour.One clip posted on Saturday (16 July) by the mother of two young Black girls appeared to show the children waiting to high-five the character Rosita.But, when the performer dressed as Rosita reached them, they appeared to tell them &#8220;no&#8221;. In a post on Instagram, the mother claims the character then hugged a young white girl right next to them.The girls&#8217; mother wrote on Instagram: &#8220;We were on our way out of sesame place and the kids wanted to stop to see the characters. &#8220;THIS DISGUSTING person blatantly told our kids NO then proceeded to hug the little white girl next to us!&#8221;Sign up to our new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sesame Street-based theme park, Sesame Place, has come under fire after more clips emerged of mascots appearing to snub Black children. The theme park in Philadelphia has faced allegations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}