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Sexyy Pink celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day in a somewhat unconventional approach, and unsurprisingly, it didn’t precisely land with everybody. On Tuesday (Jan. 21), Bernice King, the late civil rights chief’s youngest daughter, demanded the “Pound City” hitmaker delete AI-generated pictures she created of herself and Dr. King.
“That is deliberately distasteful, dishonoring, deplorable and disrespectful to my household and my father, who is just not right here to reply himself as a result of he was assassinated for working in your civil and human rights and to finish struggle and poverty,” Bernice penned on X, alongside a easy request: “Please delete.”
The Spelman School alum subsequently addressed critics coming after the Hood Hottest Princess creator. “Please don’t mission your ideas onto me. I don’t imagine Sexyy Pink to be a ‘degenerate,’ ‘ghetto’ or ‘trash.’ I’ve spoken out previously about using and comparability to both of my dad and mom to denigrate different individuals,” she stated.
“I simply don’t perceive one of these use of my father’s picture (on MLK Day, no much less) in a approach that doesn’t convey what we all know to be true about his service and sacrifice,” Bernice additional defined. “Even in the event you disagree with him or along with his techniques and even imagine issues stated about him by individuals who hated him, why do that?”
Happily, Sexyy Pink was understanding about how the digitally altered photographs of her and MLK holding palms might upset some individuals. “You ain’t flawed. [I] by no means meant to disrespect your loved ones. My apologies. [I] simply reposted one thing I noticed that I assumed was harmless,” the St. Louis native responded.
Bernice wrote again, “Thanks in your apology, which I sincerely settle for. Please know that it was not my intention that you just be denigrated. I worth you as a human being.”
Musically, the rapper is scheduled to carry out at Rolling Loud California on March 15. Different artists on the two-day occasion’s lineup embody BossMan Dlow, Ab-Soul, YG and ASAP Rocky, who’s billed because the headliner.