She does know that 13% = 39 million people.
I know right...
Population percentage is in regards to the total population of the US...not number of people...
This is basic math...
Ya but that number has been 13 forever
Because our birth rate is below replacement level...and even then we weren't having kids like that...to have a growing population
We are shrinking...
Only way Black people are gonna grow population percentage in the USA is through immigration...
http://www.theroot.com/has-the-great-recession-wiped-out-a-black-generation-1790877802
Unfortunately, according to a
new study by the National Academy of Sciences, those demographic trends are only going to get worse, especially for African Americans.
The National Academy of Sciences study focused on familial and birth decisions during the recession and found that, according to a
report at AlterNet, “among women who were in their early 20s in 2008, just as the Great Recession was sweeping through America, about 151,000 will not have a child by age 40. They estimate that the recession may mean that there will be at least half a million fewer children being born over the next 20 years.”
African-American birth rates have fallen below what is known as “the replacement level.” The replacement number is how many children per woman a community needs in order to replace people who die from natural or unnatural causes. In the United States, that magic number is 2.1. The black community has dropped below that threshold, from 2.5 to 2.0 in the latter years of the recession, the only ethnic group in which this has occurred. (Whites and Asians were already below the threshold.)
Despite the pervasive headlines that suggest black folks drop babies like rabbits, African-American demographic growth has always been more attuned to the economic rhythms (pdf) of the United States than almost any other ethnic group.