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Do They Introduce Any Other Characters With Distinctive Race?

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When roosevelt franklin was introduced in the seventies, he was controversial out of the box. It wasn't because there was maybe a reactionary element watching and saying, we don't like this black muffet,. But it was more the bourgeois black people who worked at the children's television workshop that objected to him. He had a good run for five years before being fazed out by those objections. Eventually, do they introduce any other characters with, like, really distinctive race? No, there's a really long dry spell where they really avoid the very proposition of it. And so in 20 20, we learned th we were introduced to ild muppets named aunt gab

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