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Racist, Bogus, and Unacceptable
Colorful Emojis, George Floyd Murder Trial and Georgia GOP’s Tantrum Illustrate This Week’s Proof of Racist Fuckery
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What week is it again? What year is it? This week’s roundup of racial fuckery includes updates to a lot of things we’ve seen before: the latest in the trial against the officer charged with killing George Floyd, attempts to make it harder for people to vote in Georgia, and more.
Is there an emoji for copyright infringement? In a year where words were not enough, I know I sure appreciated the chance to express myself via emoji — especially during this summer’s anti-police brutality protests, when I could raise a virtual fist in the same skin tone as my own. But as the older and more decrepit among us might recall, emojis used to come in a single, Simpsons-yellow skin tone. Back in 2013, a Black woman named Katrina Parrott developed an app to give folks emoji options that matched the melanated rainbow. She is now suing Apple for inviting her to present her idea — and then promptly using it themselves, rendering her app obsolete.
Unfair taxation: You might know something about how practices like redlining and subprime lending have maximized the racial wealth gap. But there’s another…
