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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never heard of him, and i'm officially old.
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When the cast of Sesame Street cameoed on the Marty Feldman episode of the Muppet Show in 1980, Roosevelt Franklin was there! Per Muppet wiki, they stopped making segments with him in '75 but kept using those segments for a while.https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Roosevelt_Franklin …
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Roosevelt Franklin was still used well into the '80s in books and such.
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Everything old is new again
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