Is it 'racist' to seek to avoid high crime areas?

It should be pointed out that Microsoft has already stated that crime statistics--not ethnic makeup--will determine which areas users will be advised to avoid. If people like Juanita Wallace fear that crime statistics disproportionately implicate neighborhoods of certain ethnic compositions, it would seem that she has on some level noticed the "elephant in the room," even if she is not quite ready to come out and acknowledge it:

And we also can't forget to look at race--not as a cause of violent crime, but as an indicator of populations most directly affected by and responsive to a continuing history of destructive government policies.

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