Sesame Street - Big Bird is a covert Racist

Shameful behaviour.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• big
• bird
• sesame
• street
• racism
• racist
• david
• hooper
• store
• bigbird
• sesamestreet

[DontShakeItUp]

David, a young African-American who moved to Sesame Street in the early 1970s was soon hired by Mr. Hooper as an assistant. Mr. Hooper left David the store in his will.David ran the establishment from 1983 until 1989 (when Northern Calloway, the actor that played David, left the show). Northern Calloway had fallen ill to cancer in real life in the late 1980s. He was forced to leave the show for health reasons, and died in 1990.

[Slorrin]

@DontShakeItUp or so they would have you believe. Question everything.

[EPiCPlaYLisT123]

ummmmm failing to see the racism. You can't just tell a kid you're gonna replace someone who the kid realized "isn't coming back"! Big B's hurt by Hooper's death!

[pxmarielx]

Laughing my ass off to those taking this so seriously....it was obviously edited to make it something it wasn't.

[brezzybre1b]

Lmfao I don't give a fuck who gets insulted and who the fxck is racist. I'm mostly black and I cracked the fuck up from this

[eyeEX]

hahahahahahahahahahahaha

[boyboyandthegang]

I'm not racist but the subtlety of this is hilarious :) Obviously over 50% of people wouldn't like it since the joke flew right by their heads. These people are the reason Arrested Development went off the air!! :(

[rtuckerivey]

David: I'm going to take care of the store

(Big Bird walks around silently)

[0zziefan]

clearly its meant to be a joke! But the biggest joke here is how many people took this seriously.

[mom2chris1mike2]

Maybe i'm dense but what's the racist part of this episode

[mostpowerful]

big bird sounds like michael jackson

[Hnil96]

I like how you shifted the uncomfortable glances between Luis and Olivia(?) from the begining to the end, perfect. And the edit giving David that final awkward/uncomfortable look, genius.