Data is not anti-racist. Data sets are not just cold, empirical facts.

How data is collected, how it is disseminated, how it is classified, represented, stored, these are all potential avenues of racist, (settler) colonial harm.

And as @Arrianna_Planey ably puts, the ‘collection’ of data is more than collection—it is about the ways that data is constructed and built towards different ends. https://twitter.com/arrianna_planey/status/1286374700336242688

Anti-racist and decolonial concepts such as Indigenous data sovereignty look at the aforementioned aspects of data/data collection/data dissemination and actively ‘unsettle’ them, creating new possibilities and existences of data that actively benefit communities.

I’m really bad at tweets like these, but here are some people you really should be following who are much more well versed than I am about these things:
@Arrianna_Planey
@native4data
@Tynergeography

I’m very clearly missing some names here so feel free to jump in with other recommendations.