BREAKING NEWS – Los Angeles, California – Justin Bieber expressed his regret over the use of racial slurs in the past while calling for his followers to stand against racism in all its forms. The 25-year-old Canadian singer took to Instagram to share an image of an animated Christmas tree that he captioned with a pledge for the holiday season. “I’m determined this holiday season to take ownership of all my shortcomings and work on them for myself and the ones I love! What is your goal?” the star wrote. Bieber previously caught backlash for insensitive or racially derogatory language that he used in his youth. Most notably, he issued an apology in 2014 after a video emerged of him as a teenager telling a racist joke with the n-word in the punchline. “I do not have anything against black people,” he explained. “But I admit that I try to avoid the ones in Toronto, Montreal, and Chicago, because they are the meanest and angriest ones in my opinion. The rest of them are ok… I think.”
