Justin Bieber has posted an apology online for his use of the ‘N’ word in a video of him five years ago.

The 20 year old pop-star has apologised claiming he was young and naive at the time, unaware of his mistake. The video in question was used as part of his movie ‘Never Say Never’ and shows the younger Bieber telling a tasteless joke which repeatedly uses the disgusting word. In his apology he writes “As a kid I didn’t know the power of certain words and how they can hurt…I was a kid then and I am a man now who knows his responsibility”.

This comes after a series of controversial acts such as allegedly smoking something which looks like cannabis, drag racing drunk through Miami, spitting on a crowd of fans and generally giving the himself a bad name.

Think what you may about Bieber, but it was important to note that the retweeting of his video and perhaps laughing at the joke brings about a more controversial use of racism via social networking. This at a time when the BBC’s own Jeremy Clarkson had been caught out allegedly using the ‘N’ word during an outtake of Top Gear, but somehow his apology appears more heartfelt as it looks as though he may have no intended to use the word. One Direction have also been the brunt of
negative media after their disputed cannabis video last month.

For the time being Bieber as apologised, but it is one thing to tweet an apology and another to truly understand the gravity of using such disgusting words.