In 1664, Maryland passed the first British colonial law banning marriage between whites and slaves. An 1883 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that state prohibitions on interracial marriage don91裸聊视频檛 violate the Fourteenth Amendment held for more than 80 years.
While such impediments to marriage were dismantled over time, there are still hurdles, however small, to overcome. Here, in 2019, interracial couples have a small victory to celebrate: The approval of 71 new variations of emoji for couples of colour.
Capping a yearlong project by, of all people, the folks at the swipe-right dating app Tinder and tech activist group Emojination, the emoji gods (known as the Unicode Consortium) recently approved the additions in characters technically referred to as people 91裸聊视频渉olding hands.91裸聊视频� A new 91裸聊视频済ender-inclusive91裸聊视频� couple emoji was also approved among 230 new characters.
Until now, emoji of two or more people on various platforms and devices have been available only in the default yellow. While the Unicode Consortium, where Google, Microsoft and Apple have voting seats and Lee is vice-chair of the emoji subcommittee, signed off on the skin-tone additions, user companies will decide for themselves starting later this year whether to add them and how they will look.
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Jenny Campbell, the chief marketing officer for Tinder, isn91裸聊视频檛 worried about distribution after the company mounted a campaign and petition drive in support of the technical proposal it submitted to Unicode.
91裸聊视频淯ltimately, we wanted to get the interracial emoji couple on people91裸聊视频檚 keyboards not only for equality, but also to spread acceptance for all couples no matter what their race,91裸聊视频� she told The Associated Press on Thursday. 91裸聊视频淥ur users are craving a way to express themselves visually and see themselves reflected in our everyday tech language.91裸聊视频�
Leanne Italie, The Associated Press
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