14 DAY TRIAL // Once the world’s golden boy, Justin Bieber is now going through a very rough patch, which started some time before he was arrested for DUI and drag racing, when rumors picked up that he was “out of control.” The latest ingredient added to the Bieber haterade is racism.
A couple of videos of a younger Bieber singing offensive songs, filled with N-words and even a mention or two of the KKK for good measure, have emerged online. They were shot when he was 14 or 15 and have been used to blackmail him for years but, now, his people have decided they had enough of that, so they allowed them to go public.
Justin issued a formal apology after the first one was released, but he’s yet to say a peep on the second. That’s because he’s nearly drowning in his own tears, the Daily Mail writes.
“Justin Bieber has been ‘non-stop crying’ as he battles the fallout over two damaging video clips that show him making racist comments. The troubled teen idol was plunged into a new racism row after a video clip emerged,” the British tab writes.
Says a source close to the pop star: “Justin's been in tears. But he knows he needs to take responsibility for his actions, he's confronting his past and he's hanging out with his real friends and his parents.”
While we might never know how many tears Justin shed on the topic, if any, we do know that he’s sorry for using the N-word with such carelessness, because he made sure to stress that in his apology. It sounded very sincere, by the way.
“As a kid, I didn't understand the power of certain words and how they can hurt. I thought it was ok to repeat hurtful words and jokes, but didn't realize at the time that it wasn't funny and that in fact my actions were continuing the ignorance,” he said.
“Thanks to friends and family I learned from my mistakes and grew up and apologized for those wrongs. Now that these mistakes from the past have become public I need to apologize again to all those I have offended. I'm very sorry. I take my friendships with people of all cultures very seriously and I apologize for offending or hurting anyone with my childish and inexcusable mistake,” Bieber continued.
He’s been flying under the radar since the release of the second video, but he did post a photo of a page from the Bible on his Instagram after the fact. It spoke of acknowledging our sins, so he must have used it as a way to apologize for the second time.
Meanwhile, all his black friends are speaking out for him with the press, insisting there isn’t a racist bone in his entire body. Whoopi Goldberg even believes Justin used the N-word with such ease because it means something else for Canadians, his fellow countrymen.