"Is Marriage For White People" by Ralph Richard Banks (featured on ABC Nighline)

Jake, thanks for your comment. There are a number of reasons why 70% of professional black women are unmarried: 1) The number of women (black & white) graduating from college are outpacing the number of guys graduating from college. 2) There is an unequal ratio of available black men to available black women. 3) There is a significant number of would-be eligible brothers who are incarcerated. Additionally, both men and women of all races are getting married later than they did 25 years ago. So when black women get ready for marriage, there is a shortage in the number of available black men. By the way, this is not an exhaustive list.

I recommend you check out the Nightline report and leave a comment on: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Women-Histo...

Thanks again for commenting. I would still suggest you checkout the story and then we can talk more. I believe that you may hold some misconceptions also. It's not always about trying to marry a certain person, but there are certain types of people in your social environment depending on who you socialize with and where you socialize.

Times have changed from the 1920's, but here again people married people who were in close proximity to them. Further, marriage was more of an economic necessity.

The whole interview with Mr. Banks is nonsense and I changed the channel because he doesn't know what the h-e-l-l he is talking about. I happen to be a single, never married woman and I feel ONE single women has ABSOLUTLELY NOTHING to do with a women who's bitter and who has a mate. Is she supposed to be mad because another women is unmarried? Ummm...no.

If black women are bitter towards anyone, it should be the people who set up and manifest this reality (if it is reality) instead of their co-victims. Personally, I have never sensed a shortage of black men. Never had a problem finding a stable, decent black man. If this shortage is as severe as white people want us to believe, the fault is theirs. We are to blame to fall for their tricks- but they created the tricks to begin with.