Sesame Place called out after Rosita character appears to rebuff 2 Black children
Sesame Place, a “Sesame Street"-themed amusement park in Pennsylvania, is getting more heat for its response to a viral video that showed one of its characters appearing to reject two children who reached out to her during a parade.
The venue was blasted Sunday when the children’s mother posted the clip on Instagram showing the park’s costumed Rosita character walking past the kids, who are Black, claiming that the performer “blatantly told our kids NO then proceeded to hug the little white girl” next to them.
“I’m going to keep posting this, because this had me hot,” the mother, who goes by @__jodiii__ on Instagram, said in the caption.
“We were on our way out of sesame place and the kids wanted to
