Systemic Racism is Strengthened by Data Science.

Left alone, algorithms will count a black defendant's race as a strike against them; yet, several data scientists in the community are supporting calls to turn off the safeguards and unleash the hells of computerized prejudice. Put yourself in the computer's "shoes" for a second; imagine yourself sitting across a person being evaluated for a loan or a job. When they ask you how you make your decision, you inform them, "Well for one, we docked you because you're black." In what logical sense should this sort of comment be tolerated. If humans are reprimanded for making such ignorant comments, why should a computer be allowed to? This simple understanding does not exist amongst a significant percentage of the larger data science, machine learning, and even political community.