Shade. This is a word I hear more often than terms like, “thank you,” or “please” and it has become more than just a nuance. I wish I could go a day without someone claiming they’re about to “throw shade” without understanding or knowing its origins.
A recent study determined the daily number of racial and ethnic slurs written on Twitter in a nine-day period after overuse of the “report abuse” button: 10,000 tweets-per-day involving racial slurs in the English language alone.
The secondary is often referred to as a security blanket. Heck, even one of the positions is called a “safety”. When FIU played Duke last year, somebody took the safety off and let the Blue Devils run free.