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id expect any algorithm to learn race by other properties in the data?

its going to be in the rest of the data because race has a meaningful correlation, and pleanty of causation with being disadvantaged in real ways, that can also affect the ability to then do certain jobs.

like, the environmental pollution and building interstates and freeways through black communities, on purpose to do bad things to those communities, then results in a bunch of noise and particulate pollution, that is bad for developing brains.

you wont be able to do some meritocratic non-racist hiring without fixing the environmental racism. otherwise youre just mirroring racism other people built for you