Maybe white men are not getting the message?
So many black women are single, she says, because they are stuck in thegroove of a one-track song: sitting alone, waiting for that one “good”black man to come along and sweep them off their feet.
Waiting. Talking to girlfriends. Waiting. Going out alone. Waiting. Going to work. Waiting.
Waiting for a “good” black man, with the same education level to marry them.
Waiting. Even when they know the odds are stacked against them.
Single black women with college degrees outnumber single black men withcollege degrees almost 3 to 1 in major urban areas such as Washington,according to a 2008 population survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. Giventhose numbers, any economist would advise them to start lookingelsewhere.
It’s Econ 101 for the single, educated black woman.
“Black women are in market failure,” says writer Karyn Langhorne Folan.”The solution is to find a new market for your commodity. And in thiscase, we are the commodity and the new market is men of other races.”
Folan is the author of “Don’t Bring Home a White Boy: And OtherNotions That Keep Black Women From Dating Out,” published this month byKaren Hunter, an imprint of Pocket Books. In encouraging black women todate and marry interracially, the book has joined a broadening debatein recent years fueled by the blogosphere, the entertainment industryand comments by prominent African Americans.