Maybe he does, but I don’t... what do you mean, “normalizing for enough?”
"Brown" is not the only variable that might have influenced on success. "Asian" or "Hispanic" or "Black" are actually a basket of variables that exist at different levels that influence everything from health to educational attainment.
That's dogwhistle for 'you're racist'.
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