Justin Bieber was again in trouble a few days ago because of a 5-year-old video, showing him telling a terribly unfunny racist joke, had surfaced… he apologized, saying he was a ‘kid’ at the time, so basically didn’t know better, and all was forgiven? Or not?
Unfortunately – or rather fortunately, because things like these ones should be widely known – another video has surfaced (thanks to the Sun and TMZ) and it’s not pretty. The short clip shows Bieber parodying his own hit ‘One Less Lonely Girl’, using the n-word and joking about joining the KKK. What the fuck Bieber? Are you that ignorant redneck that almost everyone suspected you would be? I guess so….
So let’s be clear this is much more serious than any bad thing Bieber has been caught doing, this is no peeing in the bucket or driving while smoking weed business, as stupid or dangerous these things were, this new video reveals a much deeper problem and racism’s ugly head.
Ironically ‘One Less Lonely Girl’ was written by Usher and lately, Bieber has been seen in the company of many black rappers, so what is this? Is he a total hypocrite? Again, he is gonna come with apologies, and claims he was young and has done some grown up since… I am sorry Bieber, I was 15 too, I am around 15 year-old (and even younger kids) all the time and they all know about the KKK and its terrifying history, none of them would even dare to joke about it!
According to MTV, Bieber has responded to the video with an instagram picture of a page of the book, ‘Jesus Calling’ by Sarah Young, starting with the sentence: ‘When your sins weigh heavily upon you, come to Me’. Sure it will help, I am sure that more apologies will follow with Bieber and Usher holding hands, but it doesn’t erase the past and the ignorant, prejudicial and racist world in which Justin Bieber was raised in. Sure it’s more ignorance than true racism, but I have little tolerance for ignorance in these internet ages. May be that’s the reason why Bieber surrounds himself with black people all the time, working very hard at proving he is not a racist? Some blogs even reveal more footage could drop soon, and as much as 15-20 minutes of the Biebs cracking bad jokes about ‘black people liking watermelon’ among other things. A source close to Bieber declared:’ This is all the same footage someone had been trying to blackmail Justin over for years. It was made when he was 14 or 15. At the time, he realized it was wrong and went to Usher and Will Smith, who helped educate him. He’s now a 20-year-old who’s taken responsibility.’
May be it’s the beginning of the fall of the Bieber empire.