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Usher Defends Justin Bieber Following Racist
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JUNE 7, 2014 12:30PM EDT
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Justin Bieber's mentor Usher is siding with the
embattled pop star following some videos
leaked that show the 20-year-old singer using
racial slurs.
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On Saturday, the 35-year-old Voice judge
posted an old photo of he and Bieber on
Instagram, writing: At my core, I am a person
that supports growth and understands without
judgement, that growth often comes as a
result of pain and continues effort. As I have
watched Justin Bieber navigate difficult waters
as a young man, I can tell you that he hasn't
always chosen the path of his greatest
potential, but he is unequivocally not a racist.
What he was 5 years ago was a naive child
who did not understand the negative power
and degradation that comes from playing with
racial slurs. What he is now is a young man
faced with an opportunity to become his best
self, an example to the millions of kids that
follow him to not make the same mistakes.
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Bieber apologized a second time on Thursday
after a new video, reportedly taken when he
was 14 years old, surfaced of him repeatedly
using the N-word and joking about joining the
Ku Klux Klan in a racist parody of his h*t 2009
song One Less Lonely Girl. Facing my
mistakes from years ago has been one of the
hardest things I've ever dealt with, Bieber said
in a statement. But I feel now that I need to
take responsibility for those mistakes and not
let them linger. I just hope that the next 14-
year-old kid who doesn't understand the power
of these words does not make the same
mistakes I made years ago. At the end of the
day I just need to step up and own what I did.
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The first of these videos emerged earlier this
week and was apparently recorded during the
making of the 2011 documentary Never Say
Never. The video shows a then 15-year-old
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