Sexyy Crimson performs onstage in the course of the WJLB Massive Present at Little Caesars Enviornment on January 19, 2025, in Detroit, Michigan. | Supply: Aaron J. Thornton / Getty
A well-liked rapper was prompted to delete a “disrespectful” social media put up that includes an altered picture of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after the civil rights icon’s daughter known as out the hitmaker in a social media put up of her personal.
Rapper Sexyy Crimson heeded the phrases of the Rev. Dr. Bernice King on Tuesday afternoon, nearly 24 hours after the social media put up in query went viral on X, previously Twitter, on the Martin Luther King federal vacation.
Sexyy Crimson’s put up didn’t embody any phrases. As an alternative, there was a picture of Martin Luther King standing inches away from Sexyy Crimson, with whom he’s holding arms in a setting with different individuals round them.
The put up unfold shortly throughout the web because the nation paused to recollect the sacrifices made by King.
On Tuesday afternoon, Bernice King — the CEO of Martin Luther King Jr. Heart for Nonviolent Social Change — posted a sternly worded request draped in a historical past lesson for Sexyy Crimson to “Please delete” the put up.
“That is deliberately distasteful, dishonoring, deplorable, and disrespectful to my household and my father, who isn’t right here to reply himself as a result of he was assassinated for working to your civil and human rights and to finish conflict and poverty,” Bernice King wrote in a put up on X that additionally shared Sexyy Crimson’s put up. “Please delete.”
King subsequently supplied extra context to her request for the put up to be deleted and made it clear that she was not attacking Sexyy Crimson.
“I don’t imagine Sexyy Crimson to be a ‘degenerate,’ ‘ghetto,’ or ‘trash,’” Bernice King added. “I’ve spoken out prior to now about using and comparability to both of my dad and mom to denigrate different individuals.”
She advised such a put up defeated no matter its objective might have been.
“I simply don’t perceive this sort of use of my father’s picture (on #MLKDay, no much less), in a manner that doesn’t convey what we all know to be true about his service and sacrifice,” Bernice King continued earlier than asking: “Even if you happen to disagree with him or along with his ways and even imagine issues stated about him by individuals who hated him, why do that?”
Dr. Bernice A. King speaks on the 2025 Martin Luther King, Jr. Beloved Neighborhood Commemorative Service at The King Heart on January 20, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Supply: Nykieria Chaney / Getty
Sexyy Crimson didn’t formally reply to Bernice King’s request past complying with it quickly afterward with out remark.
Questionable social media posts about Martin Luther King to make the federal vacation commemorating his life have grow to be par for the net course. That’s very true as federal legislation enforcement companies just like the FBI put up annual tributes regardless of having a documented historical past of utilizing controversial surveillance packages like COINTELPRO to spy on him.
That is America.
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