Isn't this tenure candidate simply stating a well-known comparison from
years and years of unemployment rates broken down by race and sex?
> Forgive an unusual question but it comes up in the context of teaching
> Economics. A mention of the higher unemployment rate among
> African-Americans in the US in a Macro lecture is being taken as an
> indication of rascism on the part of a tenure candidate I know.
>
> What I ask is your opinion, aye or nay, on this assertion by a
> non-Economist.
>
> I have to make a response to this delicate issue as a co-chair.
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