Citizens of Apple nation can now celebrate with glee — Apple finally welcomes people of all races.

Now, your ruling princess just might be a shade of black, your grandmother could be a shade of white and the angels watching over us can span the spectrum of skin colors. How wonderful and how very colorblind of Apple to offer us this new update.

For those of you who may be unaware, iPhone users can now choose a select few emoticons from a range of five colors and if users cannot find the perfect shade for the moment, they can always stick to the default yellow.

I would like to sincerely thank Apple for taking the time to consider their entire consumer base and adding a pop of color into our daily lives.

Now, I can virtually wave to my sister with color option four and she can wave back with color option five. Before then I didn’t know which emoji to use.

In this era of supposed “colorblindness,” I wonder what life would be like in Apple nation if all we had was the yellow default. We could’ve all been yellow together and not identified as a certain race.

But you see, it didn’t start out that way because we are indeed living in a colorful society. Before the update, the emojis were a range of default yellow frowns, grins, and laughs, plus users could choose little people — all with a white face.

So then, I suppose the yellow wasn’t really a default at all.

A true step forward in ending racial inequality would be to offer the range to begin with, not in 2015.

Apple should have kept the yellow emojis if they wanted to be racially inclusive. For people across the spectrum of color, it is constantly a slap in the face when you fail to be represented in mainstream society.

So thanks Apple — thank you for taking the time out to add a little more color into daily lives because before then I didn’t know what emoji to use. None of them represented me except the one with the browner skin and a turban.

Something as seemingly minor as an emoticon reinforces the notion that people of color are “others.”

While some people commend the change, I can’t help but react with indifference. Sure, it’s great that I can add a black emoji at the end of my sentence. Now can we move on to talk about real racial issues?