Teaching kids to see skin color as an essential part of their identity is what America spent decades fighting to get away from. The Sesame Street I grew up with in the 1970s was all about de-emphasizing race - the show's cast was diverse, the muppets were racially ambiguous.https://twitter.com/NBCBLK/status/1374965165553295363 …
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Elmo has lived on Sesame Street for thirty years.https://twitter.com/TurnedLawyer/status/1375099934538612744 …
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Imagine any show having white characters say, “the color of our skin is an important part of who we are.” We should not be teaching white kids in this country to think that way. But if they hear it from everybody else, how are you going to tell them it's wrong?
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It appears that some kids who grew up after 1980 never saw Roosevelt Franklin, who was a staple of Sesame Street in the 70s (we even had a toy of him)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asUI_QiiOks …
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you should stop watching I guess
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He was also basically kicked off the show if I have heard correctly. Certainly he was gone by my 1980s childhood.
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And, obviously, that strategy worked like a charm.
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Roosevelt was dropped because he was a bad role model (TRUE!)
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That was definitely a homage.
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The problem is that approach has not helped. It allows white people to say "I don't see skin color" when in fact they do. We all do. To deny that is a fantasy.
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