Racist or Nah? 13 Tweets Slamming the Whitewashed Show 'Throwing Shade'
The term is from the Black LGBT community.
Black Twitter — especially Black LGBT Twitter — is slamming TV Land for greenlighting a new show titled Throwing Shade, fronted by two cis-gender white actors. Seeing as the roots for the ever popular term "throwing shade" stemmed from the LGBT community, folks are fuming at what is being considered yet another instance where minority groups are being overhauled by white people.
Take a look at how Twitter reacted to the new TV Land addition, below:
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The tern "throwing shade" has been around for decades. Check out the video below of legendary drag queen Dorian Corey describing "shade" from the classic film Paris Is Burning:
