Elmo Helps Lil' Dunns Cope with the War

There's a special episode of Sesame Street where Elmo is talking to a character who has a father returning from war (damn, they let ANYONE into the Army these days). It won't be shown on TV for some reason, but they will be dropping copies to over 400,000 families with parents who are off fighting Dubya's battles:

I always thought it was odd that Elmo was voiced by a Black dude.