Martin Luther King Jr’s daughter, Bernice King, politely snatched rapper Sexyy Red’s wig for disrespecting her father on his day of celebration.
The smut rapper shared an AI photo of herself slow dancing with the civil rights icon on MLK Day.
Someone tagged King on X (Twitter), and she respectfully asked Red to delete the image.
“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.
Please delete.”
Red quickly deleted the distasteful AI photo without comment.
She later apologized for her immature behavior.
You ain’t wrong, never meant to disrespect your family my apologies. Just resposted something I saw that I thought was innocent ?? https://t.co/3rGQreJNOT
— Sexyy Red (@SexyyRed314_) January 22, 2025
King accepted Red’s apology with grace and class.
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.
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…
— Be A King (@BerniceKing) January 22, 2025
Then King defended Red’s lack of emotional intelligence and personal growth. There are many who believe Bernice King did Red a disservice by accepting her ratchet behavior.
Please don’t project your thoughts onto me. 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.
I just don’t understand this type of use of my…
— Be A King (@BerniceKing) January 21, 2025
This is how London’s DailyMail.com covered the story — by intentionally using a photo of Memphis rapper GloRilla instead of Red.
X (Twitter) users didn’t hold back their outrage at Red.
One person wrote: “Bernice King is absolutely right. It was distasteful and should’ve been deleted.”
Another person wrote: “I feel like if Dr Martin Luther King had to tell you through his daughter that you’re out of pocket, you kinda failed as a black American.”
A third person wrote: “There are some things you simply don’t do. This was one of them. Dr. Bernice King had every right to check Sexxy Red for that, period.”
And someone else posted: “We ain’t entertaining ignorance from your kind in 2025.”
But many people defended the THOT rapper, saying she exercised her freedom of speech.
Sadly, young people today didn’t witness firsthand the sacrifices that MLK Jr. and other civil rights leaders made for us. And how they gave their lives so we could be free.
Bernice King, 61, is the youngest daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King’s four children. Martin Luther King III, 67, is her only surviving sibling. He has not commented on the controversy.
