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Them: I wanna go back to the 50s, their styles were cute Politics: say no more fam

Then stop americanizing #Democracy

​@@R.A.A. America is not a democratic

Lol I didn't know interacial marriage was an issue in US

Interracial marriage involves two beating hearts where no harm is ever done to either. Abortion involves one person two beating hearts and the stoppage of one beating heart. The rightness or wrongness of any of this does not matter which year it is. Just as killing or theft does not change the wrongness of it or rightness of it according to the year in which it is committed.

Truly

😂😂😂 it’s funny cuz it’s true

So ... your conclusion is to blame Democrats for Republican obstructionism? Isn't that like blaming von Hindenburg for the Nazis?

@Jay Italia I mean it's not really an excuse. They would oppose the bill even if it were just a sentence. If you're really trying to help people, you propose a compromise, at least. But these people just shoot down everything and cite the dumbest excuse as to why. They don't say yeah let's do this part but not that part. Because they actually oppose these rights that people are trying to protect. And it isn't even just the Republicans, really.

This is what most USAmericans don't understand - The Democrats are also conservatives, just not the extremist fascists the Republicans have become. Within the Democrat Party, they treat the few progressive members as being threats to the status quo, and the status quo is only there to benefit the wealthy. Of course, human rights are not important to them. Money is.

@@perryelyod4870 Yeah I kinda feel like there's only one party really, and it's hardly representative of what the people want.

Or it was a wave

@@DaveCM that's a terrible way to wave because my first thought was also that it was a sign of dismissal

Racist mascots? Wow, I’m so surprised. Me being sarcastic.

That was my point, straight up shook the head and waved.

@@GreenTurtle-rw1cl oh that makes sense, I wouldn’t want to hold a baby as a costumed character! Because I’d be afraid I’d drop the baby. Babies are wiggly.

Both things we they had to vote for.

Slavery isn’t anywhere close to this

@@isaiahkennedy6839 because it's still constitutional?

@@isaiahkennedy6839 oh it isnt? its right around the corner.

@@isaiahkennedy6839 yes it is. it's a thing that shouldn't have to be a law because it's obvious. Slavery is bad. Controlling other people is bad. What do you not understand?

“9-24 months… anytime” 😂😂😂

Kid Fight Club! Go!

Did you notice the black and blue dress turns white and gold if you watch it twice?

@@rikkitaylor107 I always thought it looked light blue and gold to me, so I just stayed out of it.

Who we kidding. If there was a kids UFC for 9-24 months old we would all be watching.....

can you explain how that character saw other children and everybody else other than those two little girls ? the mascot high fived a child and an adult immediately before he passed those two children. not very observant or bright are you ?

I would imagine, as Disney now owns the rights to the muppets, that they probably do, similarly, have attendants.

yeah, i worked at an amusement park called Great America before and the characters such as Snoopy always had people with them to guide them. it’s also for their safety

@@Edwardjonez I think they were saying that if this was the case, you’d have an assistant to help. There’s no excuse for not seeing children. The op wasn’t defending them.

@@chanmarr8118 😀

People can't be this dense 😞 there's many Black kids there. So he turned racist at that exact moment after probably giving many high fives to other Black kids that day. We're so whiney, I see why no one wants to be around us.

Yes. And the disappointing look on their faces was gut wrenching.

Yeah the actions were straight up rejection not just walking past and didn't see them.

@@NineTails87 Yeah, 'probably' you are just making up excuses. 🙄🙄

@@NineTails87 "after probably giving many high fives to black kids that day." What we saw in the video was a mascot look at those children, shake head dismissively and ignore them. We could suppose all sorts for the rest of their day, what we have on camera is visible, not guesswork. Their job is literally to brighten children's day n interact with them.

I hadn’t seen those clips. That’s horrible

They'll live

If it was truly a mistake, you wouldn't have seen that dismissive hand gesture. The actor would've just continued walking as if not seeing them there, but that hand gesture suggests the girls were seen so I don't buy that excuse. Those girls were definitely snubbed.

Assuming they are poor is also racist...

What is more likely? Someone being racist in front of dozens of witnesses or a simple misunderstanding?

Grown adults who literally get payed exclusively to entertain said kids (:

Oh... It is always the adults who need the training. Kids will not know how to be a racist yet.

@@thesocialpsychologist7406 I was a racist as a child. I didn't want to play with the black kid. My mum was shocked. But one year later we got best friends.

@@solar0wind That ain't racism. That is just your evolutionary instinct to be vary of someone different from you. Kids may go through that. That is fine. Part of growing up as a civilized human being is to unlearn this instinct. But, sadly many do not. And they are rightfully called as racist.

read this as "execute" at first and thought it was a joke about the last baby-fighting bit...whoops. also, i agree with the original statement, obviously. i also agree with the statement that i thought was written, but wasn't haha

😆

He didn't have that advantage in reality. His full name is Barack Hussein Obama. Sounded a little too similar to a terrorist and a dictator at the time. I like to think most rational people voted for him because he stood for something.

That's how children vote. Especially when you give them zero context or information, and especially when they're too young to understand what it means to participate in an election.

I honestly was worried that Obama would lose due to his name being similar to Osama.

Wow

Hes all bloated from the pork he ate on the 4th dear....

Ronnie is Hollywood now!! He's been in some big movies, and I think he's on comedy tour too

indeed

Did you notice the black and blue dress turns white and gold if you watch it twice? I got pics of a white and gold dress

It is public...watch the roll call on NPR.

Um... everyone already knows because A) It's public and B) The repukes trumpet their hatred and bigotry.

Who cares if its public? No one is going to do anything about it. Republicans could be loading all of you onto train cars at gunpoint and no one would do anything about it. The American people have been placated and pacified by excess for so long, every famine and war filtered through your precious screens, so that reality just doesn't register with anyone anymore. Read The Diary of Anne Frank. The same people who went after her are coming for you now. The same exact people. They even wave the same flag.

And Manchin because it will cause worse inflation in WV. It's a maybe on sinema. Will she or won't she step up and at least support the bi constituents.

Votes are always made public

Yep! If they had just walked by I'd believe it, but you can SEE them gesture at the children and then walk around them. They were going down the line, then went out of their way to gesture at and then avoid those children; then continued down the line. Certainly not an instance of just not seeing them.

You're called a furry, not fursuiter and you guys are abnormal.

I completely agree! Unfortunately, not every park with costumed characters holds the same standards. I was lucky enough to work at a park with very high standards for its performers, which required learning a lot of "in-character" gestures/behaviors, but also meant that they kept our safety in mind. Every character had a handler, and the interactions were one-on-one, so each was special for the guest coming up to get a hug and/or picture. The handlers themselves were also costume performers, just on a different shift for the week, so they knew what could and could not be seen, what was and wasn't appropriate behavior, etc. Obviously, a parade is a different atmosphere, but for performer safety *alone* there *should* have been a handler nearby, accounting for blind spots and ready to step in if the performer had a health issue. I worked many shifts as a handler to roaming characters, and it's important that someone's there to lead them "backstage" if they have an emergency! The lack of a handler alone is what tells me this park has very lax standards for their performers, with no respect for the dignity of the character, and the satisfaction of the guests/fans there to see them. I'm disappointed but not surprised that this "Rosita" has a history of ignoring PoC guests.

dude she was wagging her finger at someone else in a completely different place.. CLEARLY not looking at them. Seriously, take another look.

@@hankmoody7513 BS she looked right at them shook her head and hands and walked around them, with your look again BS

Definitely. Especially, when you see the other videos. SMH.

Everyone saw, but Hinkey P-ignorant sadists never admit Double Standards.

@@ladybluelotus you don't even know if the performer is white, black, Latinx, Asian, mixed...ect and as for other videos you don't even know if it is the same performer. When I worked in an amusement park every character was played by multiple people and the people who played the characters were a very diverse group

I think it's just sad. Sesame street the tv show has done so so so much charity, outreach, and peace work and for a theme park to ruin it is disgusting. Sesame street went out of its way to add many firsts in teaching diversity for a kids show. Like they got hella hate and protests when they added Roosevelt Franklin because he was played by a black man in 1969. Then this cooperate bs opens up and now these kids who were taught love, acceptance, and skills from the show are disappointed because people don't care to embody what sesame street is about.

@@saltydog7038 The race of the performer doesn't matter. Their actions do.

My friend was Jessie at Disneyland. She often mention perverts trying to feel her up. She never once mentioned any trouble seeing little kids.

...because all costumes are exactly the same.

He saw them. He just refused to greet them. You can see him waving and saying no

As somebody who also worked as a costume character I know that you greet thousands of people a day and there will be people of all races, ages, genders, whatever that you will and won't high five to. I also remember the cast of performers being very diverse and that the video in question is only a few seconds long. Follow that performer for the entire parade I highly doubt they only high fived white kids.

Ohh, "Light Manager" is a real Person... 😯

They never pointed out that the ruling should have never happened because it was 'legislating from the bench' instead of doing what needs to be done now, having the ACTUAL law makers make laws? Relying on the courts never works, because sooner or later another judge just throws out the 'law' another judge decided to just make up.

Why would you think that mattered? If you were in school at a time when Roe v Wade would have been a subject, that means you're already too young to have had meaningful political impact. You can't blame people too young to vote for the results of elections.

Nothing. Nothing can be taught in school because it's offensive to white kids and their parents.

That's literally a completely different costume.

@@OC-CPA how do you know, have you tried it on?

@@sailorcellar I don't have to try it on to know that it is a completely different costume. I have these things called eyes.

@@OC-CPA doesn’t matter there are tons of videos of that blue thing greeting and hugging white kids and ignoring black kids.

@@OC-CPA if you're not adding anything to the conversation, why say anything at all? what you really wanted to write is racism doesn't exist, right?

Exactly, thank you! And Bert slapped the little girl upside her head (he had to see her to do that). There are other clips as well and you see the characters look directly at the children. So sad 😞

EXACTLY!!!!

@@forthetasteofblood That is their job.

@@minuette1752 to slap a kid upside the head? Dumb take.

@@Adam-dy5cn That is what you do to annoying kids.

Then imagine Ronnie Chang fighting them is even more hilarious 😂

He isnt wrong. Mixed babies are very cute!!

As much as I love Trevor, this is one of the things that we still struggle with when it comes to “complexions“. It’s pretty much like saying if the child is super dark skinned or very pale, they are not as pretty/cute as mixed babies. I’ve seen some mixed children that were “struggling” appearance wise. Oh well…

@@milissameza5432 most babies regardless of race are cute but sure...idk i think we have this weird way of almost fetishizing mixed kids and its kind of not okay. Just taking time to take a step back and strutinize the situation.

@@TracyAllenVideos I thought so as well but then I remembered Trevor himself is mixed so will give him a pass for this statement. Arguably he could be talking about himself.

There's plenty of other videos showing this same behavior. From Rosita and other characters.

Believe it or not biased costumed performers are nothing new. Giving preferential treatment to people within your in-group is quite common whether conscious or subconscious. That’s why it’s so important to recognize your biases.

Nope, you're definitely not reaching. Your eyes did not deceive you darlin'💯💯

yeah

Now that’s what you call based and redpilled.

No, the senate does exactly what the Republicans want it to do. We MUST get 2 more dem senators, so bills can actually get passed.

They could they just don’t want to

@@Kc-dq7zj then we will end up with 3 or 4 obstructionist dems in the senate. Manchin is taking the heat rn but there are a few other senators that are very beholden to corporate donors and they don’t vote with manchin-sinema because they don’t have to. It’s a sort of rotating villain thing that’s been going on for a while.

No, the senate does exactly what the Democrats want it to do. We MUST get 2 more GOP senators, so bills can actually get passed.

Why everyone needs to donate 5 dollars to Georgia

They did the same for Roe. It just won't pass in the Senate.

@@ForeverMe543 exactly the house has passed alot but senate kills it everytime.

@@jtiller1223 Who needs enemies with friends like Manchin?

It's going to die in the senate.

Yeah, house does a lot (especially if it doesn't affect the powerful pockets). Senate and SupCourt are the ones sanding democracy away

Nah, it wouldn’t. You’re just being racist.

Agreed. How about hire quality people in the first place. Training someone, especially adults to be decent, sounds like a waste of time.

They're acting now... like a bunch of kids...

We actually can't demand anything.

we should, honestly, get rid of the senate

Biden thinks you should know your place and understand he can't do anything. So did Obama

We don’t need a senate. The House of Representatives is enough.

Until it passes the senate nothing is protected

The Voting Rights act came from congress. It's protected from the SCOTUS.

Would be nice if voters voted for their own interests. Trump's tax cut killed me (humor). One year cut for everyone, a permanent cut for the rich ... and his supporters were surprised on the second year; but that's what the bill said!

I value my gun rights more than a vote in elections that I'm not allowed to verify myself

@@Trashbagless001 You value firearms more than the country. Such an american.

Maybe because you don't mind your business

@@yomairacastro8677 The living embodiment of Not Getting It.

@@Tha_Trigga I love the wooosh moments 🤣

Woooooooosh

Since when wasn't it legal anyways people are seriously pathetic bring on the bombs

That part!

Dark Children?

@@sierramilan7410 lol, "dark" has so many meanings. Almost sounds offensive here.🤣🤣🤣

@@beigefox6579 I'm using the word "dark" because someone else used that word.I was questioning why they chose that word to describe black children. It is definetly OFFENSIVE! lol??

@@sierramilan7410 I was referring to the same person and not you, I just replied to you to agree 👍

EXACTLY

As it currently stands there are no repercussions for being racist and that is why no one being racist actually thinks they are wrong and should stop. Silence equals assent and people are more worried about bothering the racist than telling them to stop.

Thank you!!!!

AMEN!!

You might want to rethink that. The unemployed racist demographic is a big part of the Trump support base. It's why he has the popularity he does.

All of them? Isn't that _too_ much?

She could have been waving at taller people behind them? Ever think of that?

@@yourmommashouse Oh yes... the Muppet Suit wearing Adult/Young Adult should wave to the adults in the back row and not the children in front of them seeking his attention. Sure thing. *thumbs up*

@@docdirtymrclean3610 no one said they had to be adults. And obviously the further back someone is from them the better they can see. Is this too difficult to comprehend

@@yourmommashouse why are there multiple videos of the character ignoring black children?

Not true, they are working day and night to destroy our country. Give credit where credit is due.

Steak dinners with fancy wine gets done.

@Bossy boss Which is exactly why we need to get rid of it once and for all.

They’re the legislative graveyard of policies

Maybe we need young Gen Z to leak their info too. 🤔

It would’ve been a mistake and believable, until you saw similar videos of characters snubbing other black kids.

@@ranelgallardo7031 well honestly why do you think they are doing that? Because they are racist? Thats the only reason ? I don’t think you could have a job like that if you were just so openly racist like that.

@@yourmommashouse That's why we call them crypto racist with the occasional Freudian slip.

@@yourmommashouse Obviously, people aren't openly racist when trying to get the job. People are only openly racist towards the targets of their racism and to the people that share their views. They aren't openly racist anywhere else. People are careful with their racism. The cameras caught this racism otherwise no one would have caught on.

@@semi6544 you’re kidding right!? They did it in front of a crowd of people, majority holding cell phones as usual, and there job is to literally be looked at all day.

If you’re paying attention to American politics you know these issues were never “solved”

😂

Too many people in the US believe there's a sky wizard who talk to them.

Thanks to Barack Hussein racial conflict is an issue again. The terror group BLM rose during his watch.

@@MajorHenryL. And thanks to right wing terror group, our country almost crumble.

can you explain how that character saw other children and everybody else other than those two little girls ? the mascot high fived a child and an adult immediately before he passed those two children. not very observant or bright are you ?

@@Edwardjonez Observant maybe... regarding the bright. It is a small clip and I do not know how bad vision & hearing is hindered by that costume. If you show me the whole parade and the guy is really ignoring black kids, okay. If you show me multiple parades ;from different days;with the same guy ignoring black kids. Great and real evidence of a racism problem buuuut for me is the stuff Trevor showed not enough to call someone a racist. I am just bright enough to need actual evidence of intentional misbehavior to accuse somebody of being racist. From the construction of the head, I can see how it is a problem. If you need an experiment, take a thin black t-shirt, pull it up to your eybrows. Now take a scarf and fix it over your ears. Then tape a 1 pound weight at the front and back of your head. Then tape half a paperplate under your eyes and at eybrow hight. That is your field of vision. If you have done so and are still completly sure that this was intentional. okay

Did you notice the black and blue dress turns white and gold if you watch it twice? I got pics of a white and gold dress

What about biracial individuals? I suppose they have to marry someone of another race/ethnicity that's not their own. Triracials or Quadracials, until everybody's DNA represents the current ethnic makeup (multiracial, albeit 50 to 65% European genes).

I call dibs on Keke Palmer!

Sounds like Paraguay, this law was actually put into place. Now everyone is about %50 European, %50 Native American. Me personally I want to find someone that is %60 Native American.

Don't forget Mitch's wife is Asian, so if that law gets to the Senate he will have a vested interest.

Dude never figured out that he can just get a divorce

@@thedapperdolphin1590 Nah - probably cheaper to keep her...

Does Clarence Thomas acknowledge that he’s a black man anymore?

@@MadAudi Uncle Thomas

DAYEM THAT WAS HASH but funny. Ty for the laugh.

Not if he lives in DC, it would remain legal there

We keep making this joke. No, it's not funny to threaten interracial marriage because it might give Clarence Thomas a taste of his own medicine; it's a legitimate threat that actual people are facing.

Actually, the Thomases are protected by the double jeopardy clause in the 5th Amendment. You cannot be harmed by a change in the law that makes something illegal that you did legally at the time. But I get the concept.

That was my first thought when I heard it 🤣

@@davids.2703 He doesn't live in DC. He lives in Virginia. That's why the Supreme Court Marshall contacted the governor of Virginia and the Fairfax County official to force them to dissolve the demonstrations near his home. He did the same with the Maryland's governor and Montgomery County's officials. So. I guess other justices live there.

Ok .. let’s say you can’t see the children and can only see the adults.. then yes you would be able to guess the race of the kids around them so umm yeah .. second if you go back and re-examine this particular video you will notice that both character DID in fact notice the kids in THIS case so the argument is accurate, however I don’t believe this should speak for the entire company based on these individual acts and the individuals should be fired and retrain the new & rest of the staff. I say fire these 2 because saying you can teach a person not to be racist when they are is simply ridiculous

Certain mascots can't see anyone! I've been put in that situation before as "The Easter Bunny." I adjusted the head so that I could see the kids, and my boss told me to straighten the head out so that the Easter Bunny "didn't look sad." It's a real thing for the person in the costume to have to wear it in a way that doesn't fit. I needed someone to hold my hand the entire time because all I could see was the ceiling. It's not necessarily the person wearing the costume that is snubbing people, it's probably their bosses making them wear ill-fitting costumes!

@@johnobrien2373 you wouldn’t wave off someone you can’t see

@@Dawnie347 did they wave them off of simply give a wave to the crowd?

I am not convinced there is some pattern here - there really isn’t enough data to confirm this is racism of sorts - like a few video tapes incidents…okay….most of these seem like these people can’t see it are hot and tired…

Awww I wanted dibs dang it

Get in line :)

Am black but I’ll get in line for Trevor too😂😂

Same

@@Noirzucar 😁😁😁😁

Yep, his slavish devotion to the conservative cause means he will gladly vote against his own self interests. If the overturning of the 13th amendment and the reintroduction of the chattel-slavery of Black people in the US ever made it to the SCOTUS, best believe Clarence Thomas would vote for it. Hence why the African-American community views any African-American who supports republican politics as being mentally ill.

I think its a cry for help, his wife is crazy....

Because of Republicans

@Hopper33 Probably (ironically) Germany, or New Zealand. Berlin is my favorite city, because of how much it's been through, and how it is now. I do also happen to speak German, even though I'm African-American but in a literal sense (dad from Kenya, mom is white passing but not black)

@@LtNduati Same, but I have no idea what I'm going to do. I want to move to the Netherland, however I need to get a job so I can move there but I don't want to go to college here in Texas, and College is very expensive over there in Netherlands. However I don't want to risk my rights and especially my immigration rights when I get older, it's worse because I'm both a female and a minority.

Same here. I keep saying I'm waiting for that canary in the coal mine moment of It Is Time To Go. I do not want to be those people you see on old news reels in Germany who were like, it won't be so bad! Because you know they all ended up dead. Just told my husband a few days ago to look at jobs abroad for next year.

@@kittykittybangbang9367 Studying in the Netherlands is only expensive if you're not from the EU to be fair (I get that that's the case for you, but I just want to debunk that college in the Netherlands is expensive in general. It's relatively cheap compared to most countries though not all). Even still, I doubt it's more expensive than the average college in the US. Plus, life is great in the Netherlands.

@@kittykittybangbang9367 you could come over here to germany, university is (almost) free. What you pay is not for studying, but for additional services. The biggest part of my fees of around 350€ per semester is for my train ticket that is valid in my federal state. And the netherlands are just around the corner in the west to north west. Scandinavia might be an option as well, not sure about costs for studying, but they are great for english natives. And once you've settled in the schengen region, you can go wherever you like.

The people who put them there in the first place, are fine with their voting record.

That’s why we gotta fight gerrymandering. That’s why the bad unpopular ones are so bold and safe.

Many of them didn't understand what they were voting for (hopefully)

Almost like ppl have… nuance to them ?

Desantis will set things straight

@@MajorHenryL. You mean the homophobic, transphobic man who picks fights with companies and tries to create laws to punish them if they refuse to align to his political views? Oh yes, I'm sure he'll make things "straight" again, I mean, set things straight.

You hit the nail on the head and knocked it clean Through the Wood.😁

She could have been waving at taller people behind them? Ever think of that?

@@yourmommashouse yes but there are 10 other videos of her greeting and hugging white kids while ignoring black kids. It’s not a coincidence.

@@yourmommashouse why are you so invested in defending her? Rosita, is it you?

@@katybee3891 because it could all just be a misunderstanding but you people are so quick to judge and come to conclusions

@@yourmommashouse no, because she obviously wasn't. You don't wave "at" someone while averting your gaze in another direction. One early claim was that someone asked the actor to hold a kid and the Rosita actor was gesturing, "no" as that's against policy. Sesame Workshop has not repeated that claim since Sunday.