KHALID: Racela says he usually goes with the yellow emoji because it does it represent any specific ethnicity or skin tone. RACELA: I present is very pale, very light skinned, ...

Heath Racela identifies as three-quarters white and one-quarter Filipino. When texting, he chooses a yellow emoji instead of a skin tone option, because he feels it doesn't represent any specific ...

And that's because, depending on your race, they could denote white privilege, especially if you use the yellow thumbs-up emoji. That means if you're white, ...

That leaves yellow, the Esperanto of emoji skin tones, which seems to offer an all-purpose or neutral form of pictographic expression, one that does not require an acknowledgment of race—or, for ...

KHALID: Racela says he usually goes with the yellow emoji because it does it represent any specific ethnicity or skin tone. RACELA: I present is very pale, very light skinned, ...

Heath Racela identifies as three-quarters white and one-quarter Filipino. When texting, he chooses a yellow emoji instead of a skin tone option, because he feels it doesn't represent any specific ...