A viral TikTok shows Woody from Toy Story trying to avoid pulling a Sesame Street as he directs Jessie towards a group of black children.

There has recently been a wave of visibility for black Americans, specifically children, who are being discriminated against at various theme parks across the U.S. One of the first videos to go viral and spark a wave of more videos was taken at Sesame Place theme park in Philadelphia.

Now, almost as if in response to that, a video has gone viral of a Disneyworld worker dressed as Woody directing Jessie towards a group of black children who were calling out for them.

“Woody help make Havyn day!!! She got to get a Hug from Jessie #disneyworld #yougotafriendinme @hey_ma_heyyy #magickingdom #toystory #Woody #Jessie

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Woody help make Havyn day!!! She got to get a Hug from Jessie #disneyworld #yougotafriendinme @hey_ma_heyyy #magickingdom #toystory #Woody #Jessie

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A Twitter conversation spawned from the same video. People discussed what they thought and gave their reactions.

“Woody said nah bitch get over here, we ain’t finna get canceled”

“I mean, I don’t want to get emotional. It’s just all our kids want is be shown the same love as other kids. This made me smile. This moment made that baby day. Thank you Jess.”

“The cartoon characters at Disney won’t hug us is a hell of an inferiority complex.”

“That’s that “I see ya my G, hol up lemme get ha ass on over here” not having my ass get cancelled on Twitter”

Here is the post from @_jodiii_ on Instagram of the original Sesame Street incident in Phily.

“I’m going to keep posting this, because this had me hot. We were on our way out of sesame place and the kids wanted to stop to see the characters. THIS DISGUSTING person blatantly told our kids NO then proceeded to hug the little white girl next to us! Then when I went to complain about it, they looking at me like I’m crazy. I asked the lady who the character was and I wanted to see a supervisor and she told me SHE DIDNT KNOW !! I will never step foot in @sesameplace ever again ! And please feel free to repost this. Actually run me my money back 😡🤬so mad I stopped the video but it got me so mad when he blatantly told them no”

Here is a story about a young girl being discriminated against at a Chuck E Cheese. Her mother took to Twitter with a video of the mascot ignoring her daughter.

“On July 30 at Chuck E Cheese in Wayne, NJ, my 2yo was racially discriminated against. As you can see, he gives all of the yt kids hi-5s & PURPOSELY ignored my black baby,” user belllahijabi wrote in the post that has since been retweeted more than 32,000 times. “When confronted, he ignored me as well.”

According to the mom, the manager “made excuses” for the costumed worker.

“Saying she’s ‘sorry I feel that way’ but he didn’t see her, even after showing her the PROOF in the video. This is getting out of hand!!!”

“I wasn’t for it, but Safa was still innocently following him around — of course, unaware of what just happened. Just for her to take a picture like this,” she said of the child crossing her arms for the photo. “Great job, Safa”

Another case came out of a Sesame Street amusement park about a young boy named Jaheim who was stood up by Big Bird after his mother witnessed many white kids getting different treatment.

Kimberly, Jaheim’s mother, said she took her son, then 4, to the popular theme park on March 4. “We went to watch ‘story time’ with Big Bird, and afterward Jaheim went to go and meet Big Bird.

“With other kids, who were mostly white, he was taking pictures and giving out hugs and high fives.”

“Jaheim just wanted a high five but Big Bird was totally different with him. The bird looked directly at him and refused to put his hand out.

“Jaheim was so sad afterwards, it was heartbreaking to see.”

Jaheim’s father Jaren added: “I thought it was just us, but now I’m seeing other people have gone through the same thing and we needed to share our story.”

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