Simone Browne addresses the Hewlett-Packard (HP) face-tracking camera that correctly identifies a white woman but fails to detect the face of her black coworker. You see in this video that Wanda, the white coworker is immediately recognized and the computer begins to work, but as soon as Dessi, her black coworker, enters the frame, the computer fails to recognize him. This denial of black people while simultaneously surveilling them is a parallel that brings so many questions to the forefront. Like, in what settings are recognizing blackness or black bodies acceptable? When we are in battle like the United States Colored Troops (USCT)? When we show up in predominately white spaces? What about when we exist in our own spaces (referring back to the police officer invading a marginalized school)?









