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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I mean, OK, Roosevelt Franklin was obviously black. But nobody talked about race on the show. Showing people together and not caring about race was the point.
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Replying to @CousinDruce
That was definitely a homage.
10:06 AM - 25 Mar 2021
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