Bridgeport mom joins $25M class motion lawsuit in opposition to Legoland Theme Park

A Bridgeport mom has joined a $25 million class motion lawsuit in opposition to Legoland Theme Park in Goshen New York and Sesame Place in Philadelphia.

Breana Ramsey claims her 2-year-old daughter and 4-year-old nephew have been ignored by characters at Legoland in Goshen who as a substitute selected to work together with white youngsters close by. She posted an Instagram video of the incident on June 14.

The video reveals 2-year-old Raelynn within the foreground dancing by herself and James, Ramsey’s 4-year-old nephew.

“The worker bent all the way down to a white youngster within the video and tried to work together with the youngsters, omitted my daughter and my nephew. Went round to a different white youngster behind them and engaged with them,” she described.

“It’s totally unhappy to see. I used to be in disbelief. I needed to cease recording and I needed to name any person, and I used to be like, is that this regular? Is that this what you see at parks. I used to be so shocked.”

Ramsay says it is nonetheless exhausting for her to consider this type of “shameless overt racism is happening in opposition to youngsters.”

“The kids at the moment are in search of remedy to elucidate to them what racism is, what discrimination is, and the dad and mom are usually not outfitted, alone, to try this,” mentioned lawyer Darnell Crosland. “When you’ve youngsters which are impacted by one of these conduct, it is essential for them to have remedy.”

He says incidents like these are nothing new, citing how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously recounted the ache he felt watching his daughter cry whereas explaining Black youngsters weren’t at the moment permitted in theme parks.

Crosland says each Legoland and Sesame Place have apologized and pledged to retrain their staff.

Sesame Place issued an announcement concerning the incident: “We all know that it is not okay. We’re taking actions to do higher…We’re dedicated to creating this proper. We are going to conduct coaching for our workers so that they higher perceive, acknowledge and ship an inclusive, equitable and entertaining expertise to our company.”