"Marriage is for white people"
Branching off from this morning's post about why now might be a good time to score with an Asian broad (it's a buyer's market, dude), I figured now was as good a time as any to take a look at the state of black marriage.
There was a big thing (nullus) in the Washington Post last week about this issue, but I was distracted a bit by all those damn Mexicans out in the street marching for their right to follow only the laws they find personally convenient.
As it turns out, the state of black marriage is rather fucked up in 2006. We've all heard the grim statistics before, but here they are again, per the WaPo article.
- In 2001, according to the U.S. Census, 43.3 percent of black men and 41.9 percent of black women in America had never been married, in contrast to 27.4 percent and 20.7 percent respectively for whites.
- African American women are the least likely in our society to marry.
- In the period between 1970 and 2001, the overall marriage rate in the United States declined by 17 percent; but for blacks, it fell by 34 percent.
Having been written by a black woman, of course the story mainly had to do with all the things that are wrong with black men that make them unworthy of marrying. A similar article from a man's perspective would've been called sexist. And probably racist too, as if that makes any sense.
Interestingly enough, it's always black women you see bitching about how they can't find a suitable spouse. Could it be that their standards are too high? If these broads can watch garbage like Madea's Family Reunion, I think they can handle marrying a jig with a few outside kids.
I mean, who are they kidding?
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