Emoji users have been clamoring for years for a more diverse palette for the people characters, one that goes beyond the small, vaguely stereotypical subset of man-characters like Man With Turban ...

The now-defunct Emoji Tracker. emojitracker.com. As it turns out, there's a pretty strange history behind the icon involving ska music, Peter Tosh and the guy who created Comic Sans.

Ellen went on to note that she's married to a black man and has two biracial children, a fairly dismissive comment that suggests her association with black people means she "gets it." ...