 Okay, so according to Cole, if you don't identify as black or brown, you can use a darker emoji, but only if it's your default. So whenever you want to text an emoji to your black friend, make sure to include a screenshot of a previous emoji that you texted to a non-black friend so that they can run a comparison and see that you're using the same emoji for everybody. Because remember, they might want to look deeper into it. And this, again, is totally normal.