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Da Brat apologized after joking about the decision she and her wife Jesseca 'Judy' Harris-Dupart made to select a non-black sperm donor.
The 49-year-old rapper during an appearance on Tamron Hall on Thursday said her comments were 'taken way out of context'.
'If I offended anybody, I do apologize. But it was a joke between me and my wife and the doctor, like, we joke like that, we play around so it wasn't meant to be offensive in any way,' Da Brat said, according to an article by People.
Da Brat and Jesseca, 41, on a recent episode of their reality show Brat Loves Judy were shown meeting with their fertility doctor and weighing their options.
When the results of Jesseca's genetic testing were taken into account, the couple had only 224 donors whose samples they could use - of whom only one was black.
Offered apology: Da Brat, shown with her wife Jesseca 'Judy' Harris-Dupart in April in Atlanta, apologized on Thursday on Tamron Hall for joking about selecting a non-black sperm donor
Their fertility specialist Dr. Obehi Asemota informed them that 'there are not enough black donors - black sperm donors, black egg donors.'
Da Brat, whose legal name is Shawntae Harris-Dupart, then joked that the single black donor available to them looked 'like Jiminy Cricket.'
Social media users were quick to take offense at the Jiminy Cricket jibe and began theorizing that the couple simply preferred not to use a black donor.
Da Brat appeared with Judy on Tamron Hall to add context to her comments.
'I cracked jokes about almost everybody that I saw, that one just happened to make it in the show. I wasn't trying to be mean or say anything negative about Black people,' she said.
The Chicago native added: 'We were looking for a Black donor. We're Black, we wanted a Black donor. So it was just misconstrued and taken way out of context."
An exasperated Jesseca responded to the furor on her Instagram last week, writing: 'So , as a mother of 3 beautiful black kids , and even a black grand baby I want to CLARIFY S*** to avoid this STORYLINE from continuing that we choose our donor off of looks and that we didn't want a black donor.'
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