Share Our Strength, an American charity, has rejected a $200,000 donation from disgraced rapper, Tekashi 6ix9ine. 6ix9ine – real name Daniel Hernandez – tried to donate to the charity’s No Kid Hungry campaign, which provides food for children in need.
However, Share Our Strength declined the rapper’s donation. The charity stated that Hernandez, who has an extensive criminal record, does not align with their values or mission.
“We are grateful for Mr Hernandez’s generous offer to donate to No Kid Hungry but we have informed his representatives that we have declined this donation,” a spokesperson for the charity said.
“As a child-focused campaign, it is our policy to decline funding from donors whose activities do not align with our mission and values.”
In a since-deleted Instagram post, Hernandez called Share Our Strength’s rejection of his donation “so cruel”
“@nokidhungry would rather take food out of the mouth of innocent children,” Hernandez wrote.
“I have never seen something so cruel.”
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Hernandez’s criminal record is an extensive one. In 2019, a judge found Hernandez guilty of a range of offences relating to his involvement with a New York street gang. These included racketeering, assault with a dangerous weapon and conspiracy to commit murder.
While incarcerated, a judge deemed Hernandez “a model prisoner” and granted him an early release for August 2020. Hernandez was released even earlier, however, and will serve the remainder of his sentence from his home. Lawyers representing Hernandez, who is asthmatic, argued that incarceration during the coronavirus pandemic posed significant danger to his health.
The judge presiding over Hernandez’s case, Judge Eneglmayer, deemed that “in light of the heightened medical risk presented to Mr. Hernandez by the COVID-19 pandemic, there are extraordinary and compelling reasons to reduce Mr. Hernandez’s sentence in the manner requested.”
Prior to his recent sentence, police charged Hernandez with child sex offences in 2015. Police arrested Hernandez again in 2018, after he allegedly assaulted a 16-year-old boy.
Watch NBC report on Hernandez’s arrest in 2018:
