“Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?” asked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 5-year-old son six decades ago.
A Baltimore family recently filed a $25 million class action racial discrimination lawsuit against Sesame Place, a Muppets-themed amusement park outside Philadelphia. A video showed a Muppet character named Rosita high-fiving white kids while appearing to blatantly ignore the extended hands of little black kids. Other black families said the same thing happened to their kids, too.
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The park apologized. But this failed to appease the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who, in a letter accusing the park of “racist characters snubbing black kids,” made several demands, including appointing blacks to its board of directors, that it spend money on black-owned businesses and require its workers to undergo sensitivity training.
There’s a lot we don’t know. Who was in the costumes? Were black kids intentionally mistreated? But let’s assume that these black kids were, in fact, snubbed because of their race. How these kids deal with this slight will be entirely dictated by their parents. Does Rosita reflect “systemic racism,” a microcosm of blacks’ second-class status? Or do the parents teach their children to put this incident in perspective by instructing their kids that not everybody behaves properly, and that people like that win if you become bitter and view life through race-tinted glasses?
In April 1963, King, while in a Birmingham, Alabama jail following a minor traffic offense, wrote his famous letter in which he described the emotional toll of being second class, especially in the Jim Crow South. It read, in part: “When you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son who is asking: ‘Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?'”
That was a very different time, a world before a black president, a black female vice president, black secretaries of state, black U.S attorneys general, black governors, black Supreme Court members, a black secretary of defense, black U.N. ambassadors and black mayors of nearly every major city.
Philadelphia has had black mayors. In 1988, a black man became the city’s first black Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department, a position currently held by a black woman. In 2006, a black man was the Republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania. A black man is a Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in the 2022 election. The Philadelphia superintendent of public schools is black. Pennsylvania’s population is 11% black, and blacks make up 9% of the state legislators.
Not exactly the Jim Crow South.
Meanwhile, in 2021 Philadelphia had a record number of homicides, and this year is on track to exceed last year’s number. Most of the perps and victims are black. While nationwide about 10% of American families have their kids in private school, a 2004 study by the Fordham Institute found that 44% of Philadelphia government schoolteachers with school-age kids put them in private schools.
Recent videos show a black toddler attempting to strike black Minneapolis police officers, with one little kid calling a black cop an “Oreo.” A black 16-year-old with a criminal record who fought violently with an NYPD officer in a subway station was released in less than 24 hours. He asked the judge whether he could press charges against the cops. As for Baltimore, the hometown of the family that filed the lawsuit, 2017 tests show 13 public high schools in Baltimore where 0% of students were math proficient and another half-dozen where only 1% were math proficient.
Has Jesse Jackson said a word about any of this?
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“Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?” asked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 5-year-old son six decades ago.
BECAUSE –
A Baltimore family recently filed a $25 million class action racial discrimination lawsuit against Sesame Place, a Muppets-themed amusement park outside Philadelphia. A video showed a Muppet character named Rosita high-fiving white kids while appearing to blatantly ignore the extended hands of little black kids.
(And is worth $25 million)
The park apologized. But this failed to appease the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who, in a letter accusing the park of “racist characters snubbing black kids,” made several demands, including appointing blacks to its board of directors, that it spend money on black-owned businesses and require its workers to undergo sensitivity training.
(this in itself is racist!)
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing.
Now blacks, black LGBTQ and black/brown illegal immigrants are above the law and treated like elite gods.
If one is a black LGBTQ female, is all the qualifications need to fill any position in this treasonous, corrupt, demented puppet president’s administration.
“Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?” asked MLK’s daughter 60 years ago?” If he could have seen into the future he would have responded “Don’t worry little one, if things don’t change it will be innocent black kids like you getting shot by blacks while asleep in their cars or bedrooms. When it comes to mean, once you go black you never go back to equal opportunity for revenge or blame for not concentrating on the content of your hearts but the color of your skins.” Not getting a high five from your friendly sesame street costumed feely good will be the least of your worries. Surviving the trip to the hospital, only to see the guy who shot you back on the streets of your Democrat black run city might make you wish you grew up in the 50s or 60s, and this kind of secular social progressivism never was allowed to happen. We’ve come a long way baby,,,,who today, being mostly black just got aborted and thrown out with the bathwater along with American moral sense of justice and equality to be replaced with woke which got us morally broke.
Just look at the past 2 years. HOW MANY BLACK RIOTERS were there, and how many were held to account.
Here’s a hint.. 0.
Why do people take for granted the ability of any person in a hot costume to be a perfect service animal in the summertime? How was a figure of $25 million dollars arrived at for damages? The number is absurd as is the case in many other lawsuits. Nonsensical numbers should be thrown out of court with prejudice so that they cannot be refiled at a lower figure. The race pimps who glom onto case after case are just flies on the prize.
Every time i see someone suing for “pain and suffering” with money in the millions, i keep wanting to ask “SO WHO THE HELL is your therapist? Where are the bills from the Doctors? WHAT MEDICATION did you get prescribed”??
One thing you made me think about was we never hear the Rev. Jesse Jackson coming with statements about the black on black violence that is happening every day. Could it be that it wouldn’t cause the same public uproar that a white perpetrator would? There is an awful lot we don’t know about the incidentbut that never stops the race baiters from acting.