Finally!! Miley Cyrus has posted a new blogpost on her official fan club website MileyWorld.com wherein she finally apologizes for the harm caused by that controversial photo that came out last week. Here is the full text of Miley‘s apology, all spelling and grammatical errors are her own:
Something I Want You To Know
Posted on Feb 08, 2009
I want to thank all of my fans for their support not only this week, but always! I really wanted to stress how sorry I am if the photo of me with my friends offended anyone. I have learned a valuable lesson from this and know that sometime my actions can be unintentionally hurtful. I know everything is a part of GODs ultimate plan, and mistakes happen so that eventually I will become the woman he aspires me to be. Peace and love, Miles.
Now this is an apology that I can live with. Not only does she offer remorse for her wrongdoing but she claims to have learned a valuable lesson from this incident. As long as she learns that what she did was hurtful to others, she can actually grow and mature from this experience. This apology does not make me a Miley Cyrus fan per se but I can absolutely respect that she finally owned up to her actions and publicly expressed her apologies for having offended people (which might, in turn, inform her young fans that her offensive actions should NOT be emulated). On this matter, I think we’re square. But, I gotta say, I’m not sure what God’s plan has to do with any of this … I’m just glad that she seems to have learned her lesson.
Lana Says:
February 9th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
I actually am a Miley fan, but I am not concerned with what she is doing. Obviously many other people are concerned and I feel as a fan it is my duty to defend her and point out how people who have no interest in her feel the need to attack her. Go eat a donut now :]]
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Go eat a donut now? What are you, 8?
I care about what Miley does because alot of my younger family members look up to her and I don’t want them learning that it’s okay to mock their asian friends for looking different.. or anybody else for that matter. Nobody was attacking her unfairly, she offended and upset alot of people and since, like I said before, she is signed with Disney .. she should know that everything she does is going to be studied by millions of little kids who want to be just like her. Because she is in that position I think it’s fine for people to point out that when she does something that may have been harmless but comes off as incredibly offensive, she should apologise so that her fans know that behaving that way in general is not ok.
If you don’t feel the same way fine. You said she didn’t ask to be a rolemodel and doesn’t deserve to be treated this way. She DID ask to be a rolemodel and she does have a very powerful influence so she should be made aware of the effect her actions have on others.
You say you have better things to do but you still go and defend her anyway? Where are your better things to do when you’re saying it’s ok for a famous popstar to teach kids how to mock people of other races?
She’s always apologizing for something. she needs to go away and come back when shes older and has talent…i don’t think shell be miss’d either way.
BOOO for pulling the “God” card. That’s not going to get you out of every stupid, thoughtless, ignorant, arrogant thing you do. I hate how people drop the “G” bomb and expect everyone to say “oh it’s ok she’s Christian, she didn’t mean to be an asshole”. BOOO. Lead by example, not by trying to clean up your mess with the “G” bomb.
i don’t know why i feel so compelled to comment when 60-something others have done so already, but here i am giving my two cents. i hate it when anyone, famous or not, perpetuates racial stereotypes (or any stereotype for that matter). i think this sort of behavior has been mistaken as acceptable behavior because these things happen all the time and nothing is ever said. kids don’t realize that these sorts of actions (the “slanting” of the eyes, for example) have loaded meanings. though it appears miley was not being intentionally racist (just ignorant), her actions still perpetuated racist ideas. stereotypes like these DO have a history of being used to discriminate against asians in the united states (take a look at any world war two “how to spot a jap” propaganda poster). while miley is getting a lot more heat for this than any other teenager would, it is absolutely necessary to point out that this behavior is not acceptable.
Wow. I am disappointed that she has been forced to make an apology for something that did not require one.
Horrible. I’m more disappointed in her making this apology than I was about the picture.
wow. shut the hell up about this already.