Why Black Women Are Alone Book

Discussion in 'In the Media' started by tford, Nov 16, 2009.

  1. JordanC

    JordanC Well-Known Member

    I read that too. I think it was this article:

    http://www.theroot.com/views/successful-and-still-unmarried
     
  2. Espy

    Espy New Member

    There you go generalizing again Jaybee. My cousin is married to a black woman and she is not only very beautiful, but far more feminine that I. IMO there are just as many attractive black women as there are attractive white women. I think every individual has their own personal definition of beauty and so what one person finds attractive, another may find unattractive. To each their own.

    As for the concept of lonliness, being alone doesn't imply one is also lonely. Some people are perfectly content alone, and for many it is a choice.
     
  3. Chandarah

    Chandarah New Member

    Men always earn more then women do.
    Plus women no matter wath color, the better education they have and the better jobs they have, the more they stay single. Just BW do it on a higher level then ww.
    plus BW in the us ( stat is specific to the us) are more into BM they don´t date outside their race so easy.
     
  4. Chandarah

    Chandarah New Member

    Nope.. I was reading this in a book. I and it was a few years ago.

    I am not sure, but it could be "the red queen" written by matt ridley, but I could be wrong on the book.
     
    Last edited: Nov 17, 2009
  5. Loki

    Loki Well-Known Member

    Agree with what you are saying here, I just get tired of the same old story being trotted out in the mainstream media that there are "not enough good Black men" which is the false point that many of these types of articles are hoping to perpetuate. In other words, Black women have their act together, but those lazy, criminal, (insert any one of many negative stereotypes about Black men here), Black men are letting them down, so the poor Black woman is single not by choice, but due to a lack of viable options in Black men.
     
  6. Bex

    Bex New Member

    And all the good ones are stolen by White women! :rolleyes:
     
  7. Espy

    Espy New Member

    This is the 2004 US Census report that shows marital status by race in the US. It was the most current that I could find.

    http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0483/acs04_ms_table2.pdf

    It does show that a smaller percentage of black women are married, as compared to white, asian, or hispanic/latino women. Although the gap isn't as wide, the lowest percentage of married males are black men. What surprised me is that 42% of black women, and 43% of black men have never been married, and that's double the percentages for some other races.

    As for educational attainment, that same census survey shows 18.4% of black women have a bachelor's or advanced degree, while 16.6% of black men do. There really isn't much disparity there.

    http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/race/black/ppl-186/tab7b.pdf
    http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/race/black/ppl-186/tab7a.pdf
     
  8. Chandarah

    Chandarah New Member

    Well in some point it is true that the BW has fewer choices, but mostly because she is limiting her to BM. If she would date more outside her race, that would look diffrent.

    But this is a phenomena in the US. And it has to do with the white master man and the raped black slave women I guess. Or at least it was explained in this book.
    I was reading this in a book about dating habits... woman in general try to get a mate in a higher social class. And if this means to cross a race line or so, they do it no matter what. The only exeption in this are bw in the us, who don´t date so easy outside their race.
     
  9. Bex

    Bex New Member

    Or maybe alot of BW just don't find WM attractive, I can understand that as I feel the same way on that front. Surely it can't all date back to the days of slavery?
     
  10. Chandarah

    Chandarah New Member

    Well I see here many black and mixed women dating white guys..... and even when I cannot understand thier choice, they find thier mates atractive.
    Atractivity is a very personal thing and sometimes u cannot judge from the outside lol
     
  11. Firstly, I sometimes get the nagging feeling a raised-bar intellect like yours would take delight in playing 'devil's advocate' with me....but I'll play along nonetheless.

    :)

    I may have forgotten to write 'most' again, but the fact is, I've got first-hand, street-level experience of this one, having both worked and lived in majority-black areas in a city of 8 million. I'm not hypothesising or debating an unknown, I'm merely relaying what IS. Add the fact that I'm a man, and the crux of what I'm talking about is how much we as a gender feel attracted, or rather how little, to black womanhood. Which is something a straight woman can only ever theorise about. As for definitions of beauty, the preponderance of BM/WW matches over the reverse, speaks for itself.

    Kudos for trying to get hold of some census figures. I think it would finalise my case if those stats yielded the percentage of mixed-race children whose fathers were black, as opposed to mothers.

    D'accord.
     
  12. raocha

    raocha Active Member


    :smt042
     
  13. GrecoJones84

    GrecoJones84 Active Member

    Yup!
     
  14. Blacktiger2005

    Blacktiger2005 Well-Known Member

    Many of them will tell you without a pause that they do not need a man or a black man in particular.
     

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