Halsey whose mother is white and father is black, continued, \"i am in pain for my family, but nobody is gonna kill me based on my skin color. I've always been proud of who I am but it'd be an absolute disservice to say 'we' when I'm not susceptible to the same violence.\"
Back in 2017, the 25-year-old singer, whose given name is Ashley Frangipane, opened up about race in an interview with Playboy.
\"I'm white-passing. I've accepted that about myself and have never tried to control anything about black culture that's not mine,\" she said.
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PHOTO: Halsey attends the 2019 American Music Awards in Los Angeles, Nov. 24, 2019.
\"I look like a white girl, but I don't feel like one. I'm a black woman,\" she continued. \"So it's been weird navigating that.\"
Over the weekend, Halsey took part in protests in Los Angeles in the wake of George Floyd's death. She later shared photos and video of the peaceful protesters' harrowing encounters with police, who shot rubber bullets and sprayed tear gas on the crowd.
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