I tend to take the view that race doesn't matter that much simply because a lot of what makes someone black or white or whatever is how they self-identify themselves. It might sound strange, but a person is only as black as they believe they are. That implies that the culture a person identifies with is more important than their technical racial ancestry.
Interracial marriage (black + other) doesn't occur at the high rates that people seem to think it does but if we are talking strictly about demographics, the biggest threat to the population of black people in the United States is if people who are mixed race (with black) stopped identifying themselves as "black" and started identifying themselves as "mixed" with little indication of their racial ancestry beyond that.
I haven't seen any compelling evidence that abortion and birth control have as much of an effect on the birth rate of black people specifically as is being implied in this thread. What I can tell you anecdotally is that people who have abortions also tend to have higher birth rates in general (3+ children). The biggest indicator of how many children a woman has/will have is her education level so if birth rate among black women is low, it's more likely that more black women are pursuing higher and post graduate education on average than it is that they are having more abortions.
Interracial marriage (black + other) doesn't occur at the high rates that people seem to think it does but if we are talking strictly about demographics, the biggest threat to the population of black people in the United States is if people who are mixed race (with black) stopped identifying themselves as "black" and started identifying themselves as "mixed" with little indication of their racial ancestry beyond that.
I haven't seen any compelling evidence that abortion and birth control have as much of an effect on the birth rate of black people specifically as is being implied in this thread. What I can tell you anecdotally is that people who have abortions also tend to have higher birth rates in general (3+ children). The biggest indicator of how many children a woman has/will have is her education level so if birth rate among black women is low, it's more likely that more black women are pursuing higher and post graduate education on average than it is that they are having more abortions.