{"id":82942,"date":"2022-07-19T19:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/following-apparent-discrimination-at-sesame-place-the-company-behind-sesame-street-has-responded"},"modified":"2022-07-19T19:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:00:32","slug":"following-apparent-discrimination-at-sesame-place-the-company-behind-sesame-street-has-responded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/following-apparent-discrimination-at-sesame-place-the-company-behind-sesame-street-has-responded","title":{"rendered":"Following Apparent Discrimination At Sesame Place, The Company Behind Sesame Street Has Responded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Image credit: Sesame Place.com)Theme parks are meant to be fun for the whole family, but one family that recently visited Sesame Place, the Sesame Street-themed park in Philadelphia, is crying foul after what appears to be potential racial discrimination on the part of a costumed character. The issue is now being addressed by Sesame Workshop, the company behind the Sesame Street television show, even though they are not directly responsible for the theme park.The issue started a couple days ago when a video went viral on Instagram showing two Black girls trying to get a hug, or even simply acknowledgement, from Sesame Street&#8217;s Rosita during a parade. The issue was that the person in the costume didn&#8217;t simply miss them, but seems actively tell them no and walk away.A post shared by Jeezy (@__jodiii__) (opens in new tab)A photo posted by on While not seen in the video, the accompanying post claims that after denying the two kids we see,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theme parks are meant to be fun for the whole family, but one family that recently visited Sesame Place, the Sesame Street-themed park in Philadelphia, is crying foul after what<\/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":[364,33,27,55],"class_list":["post-82942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-autism","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82942","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=82942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}