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Well, how about businesses owned by East Asian, Israeli, and Iranian immigrants?

• Mikeb85 6y ago
  How about small businesses owned by anyone? Lots of estimates are circulating that 50% of all independent restaurants will close. No matter who owns them.
  • pmdulaney 6y ago
    My point exactly. I detest identity politics!
  • MyHypatia 6y ago
    If hamburger restaurants are more likely to close than sandwich restaurants, that's interesting and useful information. If restaurants owned by asian/black/brown/white are more likely to close than the average that is useful information as well, and can tell us about different people's access to capital. Including data on race provides more information on which businesses are closing. If race is a statistically significant variable in which businesses are closing, why willfully ignore that variable?
    • Mikeb85 6y ago
      If you read the article you'd see that it was a survey of only black and Latino business owners with no stats on businesses that actually closed down and no comparisons to other ethnicities (white, south and east Asian, etc...).