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    News story from 1946 - https://www.instagram.com/p/CokwrI4vLHD/

    Why this is not history - the same news story today - the same actions and reactions 

    Sergeant Isaac Woodard was left blind after police brutality because he wasn't submissive to racism towards him (which makes my point about the black face emoji!)

    I find this emoji racist -

    https://emojipedia.org/dotted-line-face/

    Someone, please apply for a Balck unicorn (and all other tones)

    https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html

    Different generations use emojis differently

    https://www.buzzfeed.com/mollycapobianco/different-generations-emoji-use

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    Book this podcast is inspired by:

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