In all seriousness Sesame Street started out aimed at NYC inner city black working class kids and now it's for HBO hipsters @Nicole_Cliffe
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Part of their original mission was "normalizing" the life & culture of urban working class as much as they could get away with
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Filming spots set in low-rent parts of Queens and the Bronx etc
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Using "real" kids from shelters and after school programs and not paid child actors
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The wave of children's educational programming started by CTW in the 1970s had real radical politics and now it's been fully commercialized
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