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This is a very white take on the problem. Seeking individual racist actions so as to find individuals to blame.

This side steps the issues of systemic racism with few individual acts of racism but rather large systems which are inherently racist.

It matters not whether each individual cop shoots more minorities but whether more minorities are shot by cops.

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Yes, and I’d like to add a system that has racism baked in is much like a deep learning model with racism baked in. For the model you’d obviously want to compensate those prejudicial factors because they imply an incorrect bias with the model. It’s like if you trained your hot dog detector with only pictures of hot dogs with buns. It’s not going to recognize hot dogs for what they truly are so you’d have to correct the input bias to fix it.

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