"The Black family is represented in every part of the world. The Black family may look different. The Black family may sound different. We have different shades, different textures, different languages, accents and foods. We have different struggles and atrocities that we’ve had to face in each country and each continent. But what remains the same, is that the Black family holds strong. The Black family laughs. The Black family creates a culture that is admired and desired. The Black family thrives. The Black family moves forward.

The Black family is powerful and strong. The Black family is community, is friendship, is love. The Black family are fighters. The Black family works together. The Black Family is often misunderstood, mis-represented, and often has to defend. The Black Family is beautiful. The Black family is bonded. The Black family is full of joy, music, cooking, and experiences. The Black family is passionate and supportive. The Black Family’s diversity is also what makes it so special." - Black Organization for Leadership & Development 

Long has it been presumed that Blacks/African Americans don't have what society once considered a nuclear/traditional family, which includes a mother, father, and children within one household. As the stereotype goes, Black children are often the products of fatherless and disjointed homes.

As the technological age powers forward, sentences are becoming more compressed, and emojis are being relied on to convey these complex family units, emotions, religious and political beliefs, social activities, and platonic relationships. While companies like Apple are becoming more seemingly inclusive and modern with their emojis by depicting same-sex and single parent homes, Black people being painters, astronauts, and superheros (major progress!), nuclear/traditional family units are still very much prevalent.

In a nation/world where a Black man can be elected president, his Black wife and daughters as much of hot topics as he is, why is there not an emoji, a modern day conversational tool, to represent a family unit that has now become a symbol of class and the American dream, a dream that now includes much color?

An emoji revolt, as one may refer to it, may seem like a drop of progress to dilute the racial conflicts and tensions in today's world, but are a multitude of drops not what make up change?