Rihanna was dragged on Twitter.com for disrespecting civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. on his birthday.
As the nation celebrated King’s birthday on Monday, the Bajan businesswoman changed her Twitter banner to a Photoshopped image of smiling Dr. King wearing a gold grill.
Rihanna is not from here so she probably didn’t understand how offensive the image is. But she learned on Monday, as her followers lashed out on her timeline.
@rihanna is a disrespectful untalented hack. Stop with the disrespect of Dr. King. ?
— EmpoweredBlkGal?? (@FBAAllDay81) January 17, 2022
The offensive image was still posted as Rihanna’s Twitter header as of Tuesday morning. The semi-retired pop star has over 104 million followers on Twitter.com.
Instead of addressing the controversy, she posted selfies with the caption: “commercial break.” She also shared thirst trap photos and a video of herself wearing lingerie from her Savage X Fenty line.
commercial break pic.twitter.com/CfmXe6q00E
— Rihanna (@rihanna) January 17, 2022
write me a love letter baby #XXSAVAGEX pic.twitter.com/k9MQJp9hxw
— Rihanna (@rihanna) January 18, 2022
Valentine’s Day is for me….
but you can watch ? #XXSAVAGEX @SavageXFenty pic.twitter.com/sG8JhwdSDN— Rihanna (@rihanna) January 17, 2022
Here is what some of her followers had to say about the MLK disrespect:
Never listened to this disrespectful no talent tether’s music and never will! Stop disrespecting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that’s what cockroaches do Rihanna! ?
— SweetSiStar (@MARIAMALLC) January 18, 2022
Rihanna stop with the foolishness. You’ve done this before and called out on it. Y do it again – Martin Luther king don’t deserve ur disrespect.
— Midnight (@MidniteSunGlow) January 18, 2022
Take that disrespectful Dr. King picture down WTF
— Sir ?? (@Nurdogg) January 18, 2022
That's horribly disrespectful towards Dr. King's children/grandchild, too! Her platform is too big to be doing grade school mentality level bs like that. Do better, @rihanna !
— Sheila W. ?? ???? (@SheilaMJfan4Evr) January 18, 2022
Dr. King Jr did not have gold teeth. If a black American posted that picture I honestly wouldn't care. But Rihanna is not FBA & knowing the contempt that a lot of non-American blacks have for us I don't like her header.
— Tommy Strong's Hiring Manager (@_HateResistent_) January 18, 2022
Note: That disgusting header of yours is not funny. It's damn disrespectful to Dr. King's family and African Americans.
Please remove it.— Mae Wilbon ?? Vote?2022 (@MaeWilbon) January 18, 2022
@rihanna Why are you disrespecting Dr. King by posting that image of him? You do know if it weren’t for him and other Foundational Black American freedom fighters that you never would’ve had the chance to come to America and be successful? You owe him honor and reverence!
— TBrown (@afrikan_diosa) January 17, 2022
