Black Sistas Wedding Blues in America
Dear Single Black Sistas, You Have To Settle For Mr. Available The collapse of marriage among blacks is well documented (see chart), but not the sexual, psychological, emotional and social toll this has taken on black women. Seven out of ten are single. Of the others, many are forced into “man-sharing” . ~ From Unmarried black women, Down or out : A black male professor kicks up a storm about black women and marriage. According to his new book Is Marriage for White People? How the African-American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone , Ralph Richard Banks, the Stanford professor of family law says the crisis in the black “relationship market” starts with a “man shortage”. About one in ten black men in their early thirties are in prison. As a group, black men have also fallen behind in education and income, just as black women have surged ahead. Two black women graduate from college for every black man. As these women rise into the middle class, the men stay in the lower class, becoming le...