NPR report discusses skin color options for emojis, says picking which one to use can involve 'a complex conversation about race and identity'
Of all the topics in the world that could merit media attention, NPR has produced a report that delves into a discussion about the skin color of emojis.
The outlet has published an article and audio segment covering the issue.
"In 2015, five skin tone options became available for hand gesture emojis, in addition to the default Simpsons-like yellow," the article notes. "Choosing one can be a simple texting shortcut for some, but for others it opens a complex conversation about race and identity."
The report includes quotes from several people discussing their own personal practices on emoji usage.
"I use the default emoji, the yellow-toned one for professional settings, and then I use the dark brown emoji for friends and family," Jennifer Epperson said, according to the outlet. "I just don't have the emotional capacity to unpack race relations in the professional setting."
"I use the brown one that matches me," Sarai Cole said, according to NPR. "I have some friends who use the brown ones, too, but they are not brown themselves. This confuses me."
NPR noted that Cole "identifies as Black," and Epperson does as well.
Whoopi Goldberg declares 'white people' are the ones who need to 'step up' and make skin color a non-issue in America
Whoopi Goldberg told a guest co-host on Tuesday's edition of "The View" that it's the responsibility of "white people" to "step up" and make skin color a non-issue in America.
What are the details?
Guest co-host Michele Tafoya — an NBC Sports reporter — made the mistake of wondering out loud in front of the show's left-wing co-hosts why young children are being taught in the classroom that skin color matters so much all of a sudden.
Tafoya said when her son was younger, he was friends with a black boy and a Korean boy for years — but once they got older, their friendships fizzled because the black boy and Korean boy were introduced to their "affinity groups" with other students of the same race.
"Why are we even teaching that the color of the skin matters?" Tafoya asked the panel before echoing the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "'Cause to me, what matters is your character and your values."
Goldberg quickly fired back at the newbie.
'We need white people to step up and do that!'
"Yes, but you know, you live in the United States," Goldberg told Tafoya. "You know that color of skin has been mattering to people for years."
"Can't we change it so it doesn't?" Tafoya shot back, her voiced raised a bit.
"Well, we need white people to step up and do that!" Goldberg replied.
Tafoya offered that white people have been doing that very thing "since the Civil War," although not perfectly.
It didn't matter to Goldberg, who officially got riled up: "No, no, no, no, they haven't! ... Listen, when you have a country — or let's talk about a state — where somebody can be hung from a tree, and it's OK?"
"That's not, OK," Tafoya said.
"Well, it was OK. It was OK in the South. People did it all the time. People would run you down. And not that long ago," Goldberg said.
'There are still lynchings going on today'
Co-host Sunny Hostin interjected that "there are still lynchings going on today."
Her words weren't explained in the moment, but it may be that Hostin equates the controversial killings of the likes of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Brionna Taylor to lynchings in the sense that — as a CNN feature on the subject pointed out — those deaths can carry the same emotional weight for the black community today.
A June 2020 essay for the Institute for Policy Studies — "I Remember the Lynchings of the 1960s. They're Still Happening." — says as much.
Anything else?
Goldberg added that disgust about racism is crucial in order to "get to the place that everybody thought we were with race and all the conversations. But America has had her reckoning. It continues to happen because unless we can say, 'This is what the country was like. This is what we don't want to be any more,' we have to teach the little ones to respect people because you'll be around people, you'll see people, you'll hear people say things that won't make sense to you. This is what happens in the country because we're not past that."
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Dad yanks daughter from ‘woke’ NYC school, moves to Florida — demands schools stop teaching kids to ‘feel bad about the color of their skin’
A father pulled his daughter from her posh, $43,000-per-year New York City school and moved her to Florida after the curriculum reportedly taught "kids to feel bad about the color of their skin," according to the Daily Mail.
What are the details?
Harvey Goldman told Fox News' Tucker Carlson that he believes most parents aren't even aware of what the Heschel School is teaching its students and that he is speaking out on his decision in order to educate and encourage other parents to follow suit.
He added that he and his entire family left the state altogether and moved to Florida after finding out the elite school was coaching her on how to deal with her "white privilege."
"They are teaching these kids terrible things," he said during a Tuesday interview. "Teaching them to feel bad about themselves and it is really awful."
He said that raising awareness is helping — and that other parents have reportedly begun to pull their children from the school's rosters, too.
"They are not happy about what is being taught to their children," Goldman said. "I'm not sure what else they could do but teach the school a lesson by pulling their kids out. And getting their money out."
He explained that he opted to move the family to Florida because it does not teach critical race theory in its educational curriculums — something nearly inescapable in New York City, he added.
"If you are in New York, it's really difficult to find another place to go because so many schools are teaching this critical race theory," Goldman explained. "And they are together in this. Someplace like Florida, never heard of it."
He pointed out that the schools in Florida simply let children be children.
"These children go to a park and they want to play," the father said. "They don't care what color the other kids are. They care that they are having fun."
Goldman said he notified the school in September via letter of his family's intention to withdraw from the school.
A portion of his letter read, "First and foremost, neither I, nor my child, have 'white privilege,' nor do we need to apologize for it. Suggesting I do is insulting. Suggesting to my nine-year-old child she does is child abuse, not education."
Goldman also spoke to Fox News' "Fox & Friends First" on Monday, where he said that administrators' message was "Marxist and destructive."
What has the school said?
According to the Daily Mail, the school in a statement said that the Goldman family left the school for what it described as "financial reasons."
"His family informed us last summer that they would likely relocate to Florida for financial reasons," a spokesperson for the school said. "We were surprised to read about his new explanation for the move, and question his motives for making such statements at this time."
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