microrobert
08-26-2013, 12:50 PM
The Petition to Make Emoji Less Racist
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If you spend a decent amount of time on the internet, chances are you've heard people raising hell because there are no African-American Emoji icons. Diversity-minded texters are now actually trying to do something about the emoticon racism problem, by petitioning Apple to add more people of color to its Emoji keyboard.
"If these Emoji are going to be the texting and Twitter standard, we think it’d be cool if they better reflected the diversity of the people using them," argues a petition (http://www.dosomething.org/petition/emojis) currently up on DoSomething.org, spotted by Fast Company (http://www.fastcompany.com/3016256/fast-feed/are-emojis-racist).
The Petition to Make Emoji Less Racist | Motherboard (http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-petition-to-make-emoji-less-racist)
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If you spend a decent amount of time on the internet, chances are you've heard people raising hell because there are no African-American Emoji icons. Diversity-minded texters are now actually trying to do something about the emoticon racism problem, by petitioning Apple to add more people of color to its Emoji keyboard.
"If these Emoji are going to be the texting and Twitter standard, we think it’d be cool if they better reflected the diversity of the people using them," argues a petition (http://www.dosomething.org/petition/emojis) currently up on DoSomething.org, spotted by Fast Company (http://www.fastcompany.com/3016256/fast-feed/are-emojis-racist).
The Petition to Make Emoji Less Racist | Motherboard (http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-petition-to-make-emoji-less-racist)