Halsey is using her platform to talk about racism and her own experiences as a white-passing, biracial woman.After attending demonstrations that protested the , Halsey revealed she who had been “shot in the chest, the face, [and] the back” by rubber bullets.
Now, the is firing back at critics who are criticizing the way she speaks about her experience. , a now deleted tweet accused the artist of not embracing her “Black side” based on her language when she talks about race.“I’m white-passing.
It’s not my place to say ‘we.’ It’s my place to help,” Halsey wrote on June 3. “I am in pain for my family, but nobody is gonna kill me based on my skin color.