45% of Black and Latino small business owners anticipate closing within 6 months (opens in new tab)

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?

My point exactly. I detest identity politics!

> You can actually read the article instead of just scratching your head, it goes through the numbers on how they are not being approved for assistance loans at nearly the same rates as white-owned small businesses.

It doesn't (it actually doesn't provide any stats on white-owned business nor even survey results). It merely implies it based on results from a survey of black and Latino business owners.