Sexyy Red slammed by Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter Bernice over 'deplorable and disrespectful' AI pic
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Sexyy Red was chastised 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.
![[Bernice asked Sexyy Red to take down an image posted on social media which depicted the St. Louis native, a popular TikTok personality, holding hands with the iconic American activist]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/22/01/94372359-14311167-image-a-166_1737509760472.jpg)
'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.
![[Bernice, pictured Monday in Atlanta, called the image 'distasteful, dishonoring, deplorable, and disrespectful']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/22/01/94372393-14311167-image-a-147_1737508210098.jpg)
In a subsequent post, Bernice told her followers that she had nothing against the TikTok personality, 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.'. Sexyy Red, 26, was chastised by Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter, the Rev. Bernice King, 61, over a controversial AI image she posted on the national holiday marking the birthday of the late civil rights leader. Pictured onstage in Detroit Sunday.
![[Bernice called out Sexxy Red for her controversial tweets, clarifying it was not personal against the musical artist]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/22/02/94372347-14311167-image-a-184_1737511548704.jpg)
