Many unmarried black women are uncomfortable with interracial dating
L.A. Johnson:
In 2004, the percentage of never-married black women 16 and older was 42.3 percent compared with 22.7 percent of white women, according to the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington.
Between 1950 and 2004, the percentage of never-married black women more than doubled, increasing from 20.7 to 42.3. During that same period, the percentage of never-married white women increased from 19.9 to 22.7.
In Toledo, one in 14 children under age 5 has two or more racial backgrounds. That's 10 times the rate of the city's senior citizens who are multiracial, according to a Blade analysis of the data released inJune, 2001.
When the territory is expanded to the entire 18-county northwest Ohio region, the rate of multiracial infants and toddlers drops from 7 percent to 4.4 percent, but the formula still holds. The region's rate of young, multiracial children is still 10 times the rate of its multiracial seniors. That means the multiracial population is roughly growing at the same rate from tightly compacted city neighborhoods to the one-stoplight towns that dot the region.
"In a nutshell, the real crisis facing black women is too few men with too few resources," says Larry E. Davis, author of Black and Single and dean of the School of Social Work and director of the Center on Race and Social Problems at the University of Pittsburgh.
"The education and professional advancements of black men have paled in comparison to those of black women. Two-thirds of all college degrees that go to black Americans go to black women."
If a white man were to ask Ms. Norfleet out, she's not sure she'd give him a fair hearing.
"I'm paranoid," she says. "I'd be thinking, 'Why are you dating a black girl and will your parents be OK with this and what about our kids?'
"I've had my share of drama with black men, but it's drama I understand," she says.
Many of the black women she knows who are single, are single almost by choice.
"They don't want to settle or they don't want to date outside of their race," she says.
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posted by Adam Lawson @ 5:16 PM
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5 Comments:
It's only common sense to see the problems, potential and real, and so to have reservations about it.
And that's one of the problem with political correctness -- it goes against common sense.
you aint makin much sense son.
It is interesting to see that it is more socially acceptable for blacks to be negative about interracial dating than it is for whites to openly express similar views.
I can not stand on your side totaly. You know, I am also in an interracial relationship with a guy outside of my race. oh,,,, guys, you can not image what I have met. I am a black cuttie girl and I just met my love half year ago and we will get married next month, and interracial love of course. Am I lucky? So lucky I think, and I wanna share my happiness with all of you here.
By the way, I found my half part baby on a great interrachats site. He is really gorgeous, even sometimes he is a little shy. -:) If you try InterracialMatch.com, you also can be the next lucky one. LOL. Bye!! and good luck to you all.
The topic always turns to interracial dating, but I don't think that answers the question why so many black woman are single. This implys that if black women wanted to date interracially more would be married. I dont think that's accurate. It takes two to tango.
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