Children's YouTube personality Ms.Rachel hit back at critics of her political activism during an interview Tuesday, pointing to Mister Rogers, who she said was very political.Ms.
Rachel, whose full name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, spoke to Kareem Rahma, host of "SubwayTakes," and broke down her hottest takes."Mr.Rogers was political," she said.
Mister Rogers, whose full name was Fred Rogers, is known for "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," a children's program that ran from 1968-2001.MS RACHEL CLAIMS CELEBRITIES SILENT ON GAZA WOULD ‘PROBABLY’ SPEAK IF CHILDREN ‘WERE WHITE’Ms.Rachel pointed to an example in the children's show in which Rogers invited Officer Clemmons, a Black character, to cool off in a small wading pool during the civil rights movement.
The episode aired in 1969, at a time when some public pools still prohibited Black swimmers.Rahma called the episode "revolutionary."Ms.Rachel is pictured on Tuesday, Sept.
24, 2024.(Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)YOUTUBE STAR MS RACHEL DECLARES 'I AM POLITICAL' IN NEW MISSION TO SHUT DOWN ICE FACILITY"I've read that some people saw it and in their family it wasn't okay to share a pool, and they were like, 'Oh Mr.
Rogers is doing it.It's okay for our family now.' And so it did make a difference and actually people sometimes say to me or you know, in the media, they'll be like, ‘Ms.
Rachel should be like Mister Rogers and not be political.' And actually he was political so much on the show.I think maybe they didn't watch it or maybe weren't paying attention because he did so many things," Ms.
Rachel said.Ms.Rachel also pointed to a series of episodes from 1983, telling Rahma that Rogers was against the nuclear arms race."He was against the nuclear arms race, and he had in his neighborhood make-believe he had King Friday building bombs because he thought the other neighborhood Southwood was building bombs, so he wanted to have 100 million and one bomb parts for his bombs and in the show.
And then he...