Wednesday, January 22, 2025 - American rapper, Sexyy Red was slammed by Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter, the Rev. Bernice King, over a controversial AI image she posted on the national holiday marking the birthday of the late civil rights leader.
Bernice, 61, asked the 26-year-old rapper, whose real name is Janae
Nierah Wherry, to take down the image, which depicted Sexyy Red holding hands
with the iconic American activist, who was assassinated on April 4, 1968, at
the old Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
'This is intentionally distasteful, dishonoring, deplorable, and
disrespectful to my family and my father, who is not here to respond himself
because he was assassinated for working for your civil and human rights and to
end war and poverty,' Bernice said in a tweet, asking Sexyy Red to 'please
delete' the post, which she did
In a subsequent post, Bernice told her followers that she had nothing against Sexyy Red, but took offense to the depiction of her father in that vein.
'Please don’t project your thoughts onto me,' Bernice said. 'I don’t
believe Sexyy Red to be a "degenerate," "ghetto," or
"trash."
'I have spoken out in the past about the use of and comparison to either
of my parents to denigrate other people.'
Bernice said she didn't understand 'this type of use' of her late
father's image 'in a way that does not convey what we know to be true about his
service and sacrifice,' particularly 'on #MLKDay, no less.'
Bernice added, 'Even if you disagree with him or with his tactics or
even believe things said about him by people who hated him, why do this?'
Sexxy Red on Tuesday evening took down the image and acknowledged
Bernice's post, 'You ain’t wrong, never meant to disrespect your family my
apologies. Just [reposted] something I saw that I thought was innocent.'
Bernice replied, 'Thank you for your apology, which I sincerely accept.
Please know that it was not my intention that you be denigrated. I value you as
a human being.
She continued, 'I hope you understand my concerns about the image. I
know that my father has become a bit of a caricature to the world and that his
image is often used with no regard to his family, his sacrificial work, or the
tragic, unjust way in which he died (a state-sanctioned assassination
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