Colleen Ballinger is having an "honest conversation" with her followers about her past "stupid mistakes." In a video titled "Addressing Everything," the YouTuber, more commonly known as "Miranda Sings," apologizes for a 14-year-old video in which she and her sister pretend to be Latinx women.
She starts off by admitting that the characters she and her then-teenage sister played were "completely based in racial stereotypes." "It is not funny, and it is completely hurtful.
I am so ashamed and embarrassed that I ever thought this was okay," she says. "I was a sheltered teenager who was stupid and ignorant and clearly extremely culturally insensitive." Ballinger adds that years later she and her sister realized that what they did was not right.
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