Sex and the single black woman

The Economist ^ | Apr 8th 2010 | The Economist

[Publius]

I have a better idea. Black women should marry white men.

[cvq3842]

Yes! The article sounds like America just rounds up lots of black men and throws them in jail for no reason. Absolutely impossible to take this author seriously.

[tcrlaf]

When I was growing up, my Biology teacher called this “NATURAL SELECTION”...

[genghis]

interesting article.
I wonder if there are historical examples of this?
I was thinking- france in the 1810’s, paraguay in the 1860’s and
russia in 1940’s
After major wars we should see an increase in female promiscuity.

[throwback]

That’s interesting. Forgot about that. Women will demand a premium in China. Maybe black women can travel to China to pick up mail order husbands.

[olepap]

Yah bigamy is the only way to get legitimate black children. Same scenario is facing college girls these days -its surf city all over the place. The young women are deprecated, become desperate, slutty, fat - go out with gangsters, gays, morons.

Vote YES for Bigamy!

[qam1]

At the risk of being called “racist” I see more than a few black men with white gf and wives. I wonder if that doesn’t have an adverse effect as well. This article doesn’t seem to mention this.

Partially balanced out by White guys going for Asian women.

But if Black Women didn't pop out 2 or 3 kids with the Gangsta thugs by the time they are 18 they might have a better chance of getting a more stable man.

[SmokingJoe]

But the simplest way to help the black family would be to lock up fewer black men for non-violent offences.

Nonsense!
How about getting black men to stop committing more crimes than anyone else for starters? Whoever heard of a “solution” to a problem that completely ignores the root causes of the problem in the first place?
Plus, why can't black women date outside their race? Where does it say black women(or women of any other race) only have to date exclusively men from their own race?
A good man is a good man, no matter what his race is. If you are a woman, and you can't find suitable men from your own race to date you, it's just stupid to go through life without a suitable companion, just because you are still waiting for the man of the "right" color to show up.
Yet another liberal stupid article from the liberal media. Not exactly new is it?

[tanknetter]

I don’t know about this ...

I know guys who were young and single (and a few who were in uniform) in Washington DC during WWII, at a time when young single women vastly outnumbered men (both single AND married). It was far from the “buyers’ market” (for guys) that everyone believes.

Even given the hypothetical scenario in this article (20+20, all single) there’s STILL going to be competition for the more desirable on both sides of the equation.

[surfer]

isn’t sex romance when buying dinner is involved?

[cartan]

I have a better idea. Black women should marry white men.

Beat me to it :-). Yes, that seems to be the flaw in the argument: So what if there is a shortage of decent black men if there are so many white men they could choose instead? The article seems to assume it as a given that that was totally out of the question. I wonder why? The well-known subconscious racism of the liberal probably…

[SmokingJoe]

Maybe black women can travel to China to pick up mail order husbands.

Hey, that might not be such a bad idea....if they can overlook with the rumored lacking in the ummm...”equipment” department of Chinese men.

[NEMDF]

But the simplest way to help the black family would be to
lock up fewer black men for non-violent offences.

Or the other “easy answer” - throw some more of our hard-earned tax dollars at creating programs and paying benefits to assure them that we feel adequately sorry for them. (NOT)

[IamConservative]

Maybe we could consider lowering their welfare check instead of increasing it for each illegitimate child they punch out.

Or, give each one of these woman a $100, tell them to hold it tightly between their knees and for each week that $100 bill does not hit the floor, they get one @100 to spend.

[gogeo]

But the simplest way to help the black family would be to lock up fewer black men for non-violent offences...

HAHAHAHAHAHA

If you are a college-educated black woman with a good job and you wish to marry a black man who is your socioeconomic equal, the odds are not good...

...and you be rasist, besides...

[Yaelle]

Isn’t part of the problem that in a lot of black communities, men are more prized for being playas?

[sniper63]

The economist gets it wrong:

If you have 20 women and 20 men what you will get is 1 dominant male that will sell the 20 women to the other 19 men for pleasure and become a millionaire, it is called capitalism or the law of supply and demand, or better yet.......Pimping......then the other 39 people will demand that he spread his wealth equally amonst them a.k.a. welfare, Liberalism, Progressive redistribution of wealth.

[GeronL]

People who offer sex on the first date are HOES or however thats spelled. Welcome to the Slutthood.

[A CA Guy]

Jail isn’t the problem, families being so broken up and men avoiding school leading to jail is the problem IMO.

[throwback]

I wouldn’t underestimate the Chinese. They must have some facility in that area; there is a billion of them.