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Justin Bieber: Not a Racist, But Is He Really a N*****?

Racist? No

He’s a professional naughty boy, but if you think Bieber is a racist, you haven’t kept up with the n-word’s changing cultural meanings.

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So we’ve learned that Justin Bieber had a penchant for smirkingly throwing the n-word around when he was a teenager. First came a video last week of Bieber at 15 venturing an observation that the motor of a chainsaw sounds like “Run n___ n____ n_____ n_____ n____.”

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