7.9% is more than double the US average unemployment rate of 3.5. Plus, they're dragging down every other group of men: White men (3.0), Asian men (2.9) and Latino men (3.0).
Your argument is "drug dealing is a job", so trust this is the last response your autistic ass gets.
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You're forgetting the fact that 1/3 of AA men in the US have convictions of some sort of a felony (Source: https://www.sentencingproject.org/news/5593/). And we also know when the men with convictions come out of prisons, they can't get a job. Nearly all jobs would deny to employ them due to their prior convictions.
That means the high conviction rate - due to the Jim Crow system - heavily contributes to the high unemployment figures for AA men in the US. Heck, we live in a country where the convicts are not allowed to vote even when they already paid their dues to society.
Now, my challenge to you is, find me statistics that took the convicts out when considering the unemployment rate of black men and let me know the figures. I already know the answer, and that is you wont be able to find such statistics - that is because the goal of the unemployment rate is never designed to expose the effects of Jim Crow system on the AA community.