Justin Bieber has done a fair share of apologizing in the past and it looks like the list of those he offends continues to get longer. As if the Bieber camp doesn’t already have enough cleaning up to do, the young pop star is now under fire for using racial slurs again. British tabloid The Sun is reporting a video that shows Bieber allegedly singing about killing a n****r and joining the scorned organization, the Ku Klux Klan. Now, it is one thing to make a racist “joke” (not that a joke is excusable), but to sing about murder and joining an organization that is notoriously known for its hatred, mass lynchings, and injustice towards people of color is taking it way, way too far.
Bieber apologized Sunday for another video that surfaced showing him making a racist joke, where he also used the derogatory n-word. In a Twitter statement, he says that the video was a mistake that had gone public. He writes, “I didn’t understand the power of certain words and how they can hurt,” but surely, even as a Canadian, he knows the power, violence, and hate associated with the KKK. Right? What will the apology be this time?
Since the recent apology, many fans have supported him and some even rushed to his defense. Bieber has some of the most loyal fans, ever, but will Beliebers continue to stand by him now that the true man-child is surfacing and his scandals seem to be on the rise?
One thing is for sure, though. Bieber really has a problem of using the n-word, and understanding the painful past in America of the racial group whose culture he’s made money appropriating.