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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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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Yep, Elmo has lived and socialized with people and creatures of all different colors. All of a sudden he takes issue with identifiably African American muppets. Apparently that's a bridge too far for him. What's his problem?
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