We Share Our Thoughts On Sesame Place's New Diversity Initiative
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🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The virtue. |
| 0:01.0 | What's trending now? |
| 0:02.0 | No. |
| 0:03.0 | Kristen knows it's the virtue. |
| 0:04.0 | It's entertainment for us. |
| 0:05.8 | All of us on the show saw the video from the Sesame Place Theme Park in Philadelphia, |
| 0:11.0 | where there is a black family at a parade. |
| 0:13.2 | One of the characters is coming down high-fiving people. |
| 0:15.5 | It gets to two little black girls and just basically doesn't. |
| 0:18.4 | Nope. |
| 0:19.4 | Signed with both its hands and then continues to walk on. |
| 0:22.8 | So there were excuses, but then more video surface from across the way and those |
| 0:29.7 | excuses didn't make sense because there was nobody standing there with a baby for this |
| 0:34.7 | character to hold. |
| 0:35.7 | So it didn't make a whole lot of sense. |
| 0:36.7 | So now the Sesame Place Theme Park has announced a diversity program to hopefully prevent this |
| 0:43.1 | from ever happening again. |
| 0:44.5 | So Mo, this is obviously going to hit differently with you than it's going to hit with Kristen and |
| 0:49.4 | I. |
| 0:50.4 | We can look at it and go, oh my god, that's awful. |
| 0:52.0 | But is there a reaction when you see something like that that is triggering for you? |
| 0:56.8 | For sure. |
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