Vanessa Morgan who plays Toni Topaz in Riverdale has recently addressed the issue of racism after George Floyd's death at the hands of four policemen and has called out her own show for casting Black characters as sidekicks to white leads.
While Vanessa Morgan has a brief role to play in the teen drama, Lili Reinhart, Cole Sprouse, KJ Appa, and Camila Mendes play the lead roles in Riverdale. "Tired of how black people are portrayed in Media, tired of us being portrayed as thugs, dangerous or angry scary people," she wrote on Twitter. "Tired of us also being used as sidekick non-dimensional characters to our white leads.
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