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When star rapper 50 cent twitted about autism, Actress Holly Robinson Peete who is mother to a son living with autism said she thought his account had been hacked. But now, she is celebrating a personal victory after rapper 50 Cent took heed of her plea and agreed to remove a series of offensive posts from Twitter.
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| Holly and her son living with autism |
Holly who used to star in “21 Jump Street”, whose eldest son Rodney, Jr. is autistic, was furious when she heard that the hip-hop mogul had insulted a rude Twitter follower on Monday night by telling him he looked autistic, and she leaped into action and wrote an open letter to 50 Cent, asking him to stop using such hurtful language.
Holly Peete wrote to 50cent saying:
“When I read it my heart sank. I thought maybe your account had been hacked. No such luck. Granted, his comment was completely out of line but your retort: ‘i just saw your picture fool you look autistic’- was so so disappointing. I mean, that’s your comeback??
“And you didn’t stop there. You went on to joke about not wanting ‘special ed kids’ on your timeline. Seriously, THIS is how you use your platform of 8 million plus followers??”
She went on to ask 50 Cent to remove the tweets to prevent impressionable kids from following his bad example, and she got exactly what she asked for on Wednesday when the rapper deleted the comments from his site.
Peete had this to say to 50 cent after he removed the hurtful reaction.
“Really thankful that @50cent took down those tweets.”
It takes a man to admit when we are wrong.
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