Counting people by race has its benefits and it’s drawbacks. While the point you bring up is valid and of concern, on the other side, if you don’t measure things on the basis of race you don’t have any idea how much of and effect racism may play a role in the thing you are measuring.
If we didn’t already have the concept of race I certainly wouldn’t want to conjure it up out of thin air, but in a country where we openly and explicitly discriminated against people on the basis of their race within the lifetime of my still living parents, it’s not something you can simply ignore the effect of and just hope they go away.
If we didn’t already have the concept of race I certainly wouldn’t want to conjure it up out of thin air, but in a country where we openly and explicitly discriminated against people on the basis of their race within the lifetime of my still living parents, it’s not something you can simply ignore the effect of and just hope they go away.