It’s blinded, but from the distress and complaints, comes awareness, which is what happened with genetic DNA tests like 23andMe. Over time, as more and more African Americans notice the gap and the results that were only vague, the complaints came, but the more data that was submitted, the more specific the origin of a person came in Africa. There are now some tests for markers in Africa.

Sure, there really is no excuse for Lensa since there are documentaries on racial facial profiling, like Coded Bias on Netflix about a black Female professor at MIT. And the biggest markets are the US and Europe for app makers, followed by China, in an industry in Silicon Valley still dominated by white males (my wife is a foreign born American in this field that has risen to around 28 percent female for 2 decades, with few blacks—about 4 percent, despite encouragement). Maybe they are under financed or live in Sweden or Poland or something. If there from America, maybe they lived under a rock to not know about white supremacy reactions, or even welcomed the reactions as it will generate controversy, raise awareness and then they can say the corrected it. I guess we’ll see. But thanks for raising the issue and awareness.

But let’s hope that there is a response, a positive correction. In fact, I think it would be cool if there was an app that took a picture of me as a white guy and gave me 5 avatar portraits of what I look like as a Ugandan Black man, an Japanese, an Iroquois, a Gujarati, a Persian, an Sunni Arab, maybe a female geisha, a trans-Thai martial artist and female Dahomey warrior like in the new movie. Then maybe the shock of that would shake us all out our shell and into a place where we can starting seeing the possibilities of how others live. That I would pay for, and get a portrait of all printed out, one for each holiday. Maybe it will be ready in time for Kwanzaa if I miss Christmas.