Black unemployment has stayed double white rates for decades.

Evidence

For example, for the past fifty years African American unemployment has been twice that of white unemployment. The 2013 unemployment rate for African Americans stood at 13.1 percent, the highest annual black unemployment rate in more than seventy years. Social scientists do not generally agree on the causes of this trend. Some attribute it to the fact that African Americans are typically the “last hired and first fired.” Others point to changes in the nature of the economy; still others point to overt racial discrimination in the labor market. No matter how we account for the numbers, the fact remains that most Americans see double-digit black unemployment as “normal.” — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 512

Categorization

• QUESTION: The ‘normalization’ of double-digit black unemployment is a candidate measurable index of the value gap worth chasing further.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 512