TMZ again: With some help from Jesse Jackson and his organization, they invited the family back... sorry, they said... https://www.tmz.com/2022/09/01/sesame-place-invites-black-family-back-children-too-traumatized/ (link) B
M-D November, to Mark Jeffries, July 21st: > So I have two takes on this: > 1) This comes directly from a friend, whose daughter works in the > entertainment department at Sesame Place (although not as Rosita) - to > summarize: > > - The performer (male) playing Rosita is black, so unless he's > self-hating, it's unlikely the incident was racially motivated. > - There was a woman who asked him to hold her baby. That's against > policy - hence the waive-off. > - This was happening in the middle of a parade, and he had to hit his > mark for choreography that was coming up. Characters must be on the floats > at a certain time for them to progress down the parade route. > > 2) Having worked at a theme park myself (albeit not in costume), I have > some idea of the narrow field of vision these costumed characters actually > have. Given what we see in Mac's video, it's entirely possible that > "Rosita" didn't even see the kids hovering just in front of her. > > Either way, this is ridiculous. There are so many opportunities for > character interactions, to say this one moment broke your kid to the point > that you need to lawyer up? Ugh. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/7ab3a33c-d105-444f-80d8-0607c4fc83b5n%40googlegroups.com.
