 Wrapping up the article, it says, Rahman said there was a default in society to associate whiteness with being raceless, and the emojis gave white people an option to make their race explicit. Quote, I completely hear some people are just exhausted from having to do that. Many people of color have to do that every day and are confronted with race every day, Rahman said. But for many white people, they've been able to ignore it, whether that's subconsciously or consciously their whole lives.