I'm not here to tell you what to do. Use race then. I offered up why I think this article is only generating interest is because race is a loaded word, and if it weren't used, it'd be passed over.

> The real question is why people don't say that I belong to the six-foot tall bad-knees race

This is an article about ML accurately predicting self-identified race. This is not even on the spectrum of real questions.