African american Quote by Xavier Becerra

“Nationally in 2011, poor whites exceeded the poor African American total by roughly eight million: 19,171,000 versus 10,929,000.”

— Karl Alexander

“If Black people make up 13.2 percent of the US population, then Black people should make up somewhere close to 13 percent of the…

— Ibram X. Kendi

[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.

— Ethan Zuckerman

Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions.…

— Alan Keyes

There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The president is not doing well with African Americans. His popularity rating - his approval rating - with blacks: two percent. Two percent. That…

— Bill Maher

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.

— Xavier Becerra

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

— Chaka Fattah

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison.…

— Danny Glover

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same…

— Bobby Scott

Black people in the US are told all the time, from all aspects, that they're nothing, that they're less than. And of course that…

— Jesmyn Ward

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

— Xavier Becerra