But I had no doubt that I was misidentified because of the color of my skin than anything else.
Jimmy Gomez: “But I had no doubt that I was misidentified because of the color of my skin than anything else.”
On the recordJanuary 14, 2020
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Gomez discusses personal experience with misidentification due to racial bias in technology.
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