Sexyy Red's taking responsibility for her online actions ... apologizing to Bernice and admitting her repost may have been in bad taste. Red says she shared something she thought was innocent -- and, she wasn't trying to upset anyone.
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00:00And now, look what I posted on MLK Day!
00:05Oops, sorry, I'll delete it.
00:06Starring rapper Sexy Red!
00:08Sexy Red is taking back her tribute
00:12to Martin Luther King Jr.
00:13So she posted a bunch of images of herself
00:16hanging out with Dr. King.
00:17Dancing with him, also another one marching with him.
00:22In an outfit that back then wasn't even invented yet.
00:25But the post got a ton of likes,
00:27although not everyone liked it.
00:29Dr. King's daughter, Bernice King, was outraged
00:32and said,
00:33this is intentionally distasteful, dishonoring,
00:37deplorable, and disrespectful to my family and my father,
00:41who is not here to respond for himself,
00:44because he was assassinated,
00:45for working for your civil human rights
00:48to end war and poverty.
00:50And she said, please delete.
00:52And Sexy Red did delete it
00:54and offered an apology to Bernice.
00:56You ain't wrong.
00:57Never meant to disrespect your family.
00:59My apologies.
01:00And Bernice accepted the apology.
01:02But was it really that offensive?
01:04She could have done Dr. King getting low.
01:06She did a nice picture.
01:08I don't think it's disrespectful.
01:08It's disrespectful for the people in that time
01:11with what they were going through.
01:12And 92% of the people on our website agree.
01:15This is like when Justin Bieber said
01:17Anne Frank would have been a believer.
01:18I'll tell you why that's different,
01:19because he did that on sacred ground.
01:21He did that at the Anne Frank house.
01:23True, but Sexy Red showing this much boob
01:25is more like Mark Zuckerberg's dream.
01:28I think it's nice.
01:29And people that are very young are gonna be curious
01:31about who this man is that don't know.
01:33And they should know about Martin Luther King.
01:36So tune in next time when Sexy Red posts an image
01:39of her at the Last Supper.