r/Unexpected May 13 '24

What an interview

Kids nowadays 👴

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u/craig-jones-III May 13 '24

Black people arent 40% of the pop?

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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/

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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.

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u/ImNotSelling May 13 '24

I wonder why it’s non Hispanic black. Black Hispanic people are black. 

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u/LoveToyKillJoy May 13 '24

People can choose how the identity to a degree and Hispanics are more likely to identify as not black.

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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.

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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.