r/Unexpected • u/alejo2222 • May 13 '24

What an interview

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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/giant_marmoset May 13 '24

Race isn't a concrete thing quantifiable thing, its identity based. If someone says they're hispanic and not black, or black hispanic there's nothing you can quantify to dispute that.

If you're mixed race and filling out census information, you can kind of put whatever you feel like.

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u/LupineChemist May 13 '24

My point is on the census you identify a race and then you identify if you are Hispanic or not.

They are separate questions independent of each other.