Not in America, but I was talking to some managers for a childcare service here and they were explaining why they try to favor brown people. One put it as "for

Not in America, but I was talking to some managers for a childcare service here and they were explaining why they try to favor brown people. One put it as "for want of a better measure". It's kind of strange since that's sort of what all racism is, isn't it? An easy shortcut for evaluating people without having to go to the trouble of investigating each individual.