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chowder66

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19. He was 15 years old
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 06:19 PM
Jun 2014

I don't know much about this kid other than he is in the news a lot lately for something or another.
I heard about these videos this morning and there is more there;

He was 15 years old, saw a parody of someone else doing it with racist lyrics, decided to do his own (I'm not excusing just reporting)....

"Bieber also allegedly told both his former mentors Usher and Will Smith (who used to counsel him weekly) about the videos years ago because he “knew almost immediately it was a stupid thing to do.” At this point Usher “took him into a room and showed him historically racist videos to drive home how hurtful these words can be.” If this is true, it’s in line with the apology Bieber issued after the first racist video came out in which 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."

http://www.bustle.com/articles/26897-justin-biebers-second-racist-video-involves-usher-will-smith-video

I am putting this out there because I don't know if people are clicking on links and reading or not.

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