Justin Bieber's sixth studio album Justice came with some controversy upon its release on March 19. Many listeners criticized two samples of speeches by Martin Luther King Jr.
on the tracks "MLK Interlude" and "2 Much" as exploitative of the civil rights movement. On Tuesday, Bieber spoke in Clubhouse on the reaction to MLK Jr.'s inclusion, according to a Billboard report.
Bieber drew a line between his own lack of education on Black history and his decision to include King's voice on his album. "Being Canadian," he said, "they didn’t teach us about Black history.
It was just not a part of our education system. I think for me, coming from Canada and being uneducated and making insensitive jokes when I was a kid and being insensitive and.
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