A Twitter video from Black "digital strategist" Leslie Mac showing the 
costumed "Sesame Street" Latina Muppet character Rosita waving off Mac's 
4th birthday-celebrating daughter and her Black friend after high-fiving 
white kids at Sesame Place, the suburban Philadelphia theme park licensed 
by Sea World from Sesame Workshop, has received the predictable hubbub from 
the tweetybox, including similar videos from others and celeb comments from 
former Destiny's Child Kelly Rowland and Audra McDonald--the park says that 
the wave-off is a symbol indicating a policy that characters cannot hold on 
to kids for photo taking and invited the Mac family for a private 
meet-and-greet, Mac says that the invitation never happened and accused 
them of lying, Sesame Workshop says that they are asking the park to 
initiate anti-racism training for employees:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/sesame-place-viral-video-1235182473/

And I assume the rightwing channels are having a field day with this.

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