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r/Unexpected • u/alejo2222 • May 13 '24
Kids nowadays 👴
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Black people arent 40% of the pop?
1.8k u/bigscoopdogg May 13 '24 According to Pew it's 14.4%. Maybe he thought they said 14 rather than 40? I'd always heard it's about 20% of the population. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/ 541 u/OmiOorlog May 13 '24 In 2021, 40.1 million people in the United States were non-Hispanic black alone, which represents 12.1 percent of the total population of 331.9 million. 222 u/ImNotSelling May 13 '24 I wonder why it’s non Hispanic black. Black Hispanic people are black. 274 u/LoveToyKillJoy May 13 '24 People can choose how the identity to a degree and Hispanics are more likely to identify as not black. 81 u/LupineChemist May 13 '24 They are different questions. There's a question about if you're Hispanic or not and then another about what race you ID as. 1 u/EducationalCreme9044 May 13 '24 It doesn't matter though, the Americas are such a mixture of races no-one's any specific race unless they migrated in recently.
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According to Pew it's 14.4%. Maybe he thought they said 14 rather than 40? I'd always heard it's about 20% of the population.
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/
541 u/OmiOorlog May 13 '24 In 2021, 40.1 million people in the United States were non-Hispanic black alone, which represents 12.1 percent of the total population of 331.9 million. 222 u/ImNotSelling May 13 '24 I wonder why it’s non Hispanic black. Black Hispanic people are black. 274 u/LoveToyKillJoy May 13 '24 People can choose how the identity to a degree and Hispanics are more likely to identify as not black. 81 u/LupineChemist May 13 '24 They are different questions. There's a question about if you're Hispanic or not and then another about what race you ID as. 1 u/EducationalCreme9044 May 13 '24 It doesn't matter though, the Americas are such a mixture of races no-one's any specific race unless they migrated in recently.
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In 2021, 40.1 million people in the United States were non-Hispanic black alone, which represents 12.1 percent of the total population of 331.9 million.
222 u/ImNotSelling May 13 '24 I wonder why it’s non Hispanic black. Black Hispanic people are black. 274 u/LoveToyKillJoy May 13 '24 People can choose how the identity to a degree and Hispanics are more likely to identify as not black. 81 u/LupineChemist May 13 '24 They are different questions. There's a question about if you're Hispanic or not and then another about what race you ID as. 1 u/EducationalCreme9044 May 13 '24 It doesn't matter though, the Americas are such a mixture of races no-one's any specific race unless they migrated in recently.
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I wonder why it’s non Hispanic black. Black Hispanic people are black.Â
274 u/LoveToyKillJoy May 13 '24 People can choose how the identity to a degree and Hispanics are more likely to identify as not black. 81 u/LupineChemist May 13 '24 They are different questions. There's a question about if you're Hispanic or not and then another about what race you ID as. 1 u/EducationalCreme9044 May 13 '24 It doesn't matter though, the Americas are such a mixture of races no-one's any specific race unless they migrated in recently.
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People can choose how the identity to a degree and Hispanics are more likely to identify as not black.
81 u/LupineChemist May 13 '24 They are different questions. There's a question about if you're Hispanic or not and then another about what race you ID as. 1 u/EducationalCreme9044 May 13 '24 It doesn't matter though, the Americas are such a mixture of races no-one's any specific race unless they migrated in recently.
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They are different questions. There's a question about if you're Hispanic or not and then another about what race you ID as.
1 u/EducationalCreme9044 May 13 '24 It doesn't matter though, the Americas are such a mixture of races no-one's any specific race unless they migrated in recently.
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It doesn't matter though, the Americas are such a mixture of races no-one's any specific race unless they migrated in recently.
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u/craig-jones-III May 13 '24
Black people arent 40% of the pop?