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Sex and the single black woman
The Economist ^ | Apr 8th 2010 | The Economist

Posted on 04/13/2010 11:51:43 AM PDT by unclebankster

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To: AbeKrieger

Given the volume of laws promulgated even before the present Congress’s madness, and regulations implementing them, many of which carry criminal sanctions, are you absolutely sure *you* aren’t a felon?

People break laws because they do things the laws prohibit, not necessarily because they chose to break laws.

In ancient Israel, where were 613 laws, and studying them was popular form of piety, one could reasonably hold that law-breakers chose to break the law. Not so in modern America: every four years Congress passes more laws than God gave the Israelites in the entire Torah. They change all the time, and instead of running one sentence each like His did, they give us multiple-thousand-page “laws”, and that doesn’t include state laws and city ordinances.


81 posted on 04/13/2010 1:20:57 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: throwback
Maybe black women can travel to China to pick up mail order husbands.

Now there's an interesting cultural clash!
82 posted on 04/13/2010 1:22:19 PM PDT by Ellendra (Can't starve us out, and you can't make us run. . . -Hank Jr.)
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To: unclebankster
This article is garbage.

The best thing for blacks is to end the Thug culture and start to revere education and hard work. Make it a social no-no for females to dress and act like whores and hookers and for males to wear their pants around their knees and be held in high esteem for being jailed.

I can dream, can't I?

83 posted on 04/13/2010 1:22:26 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: super7man; cartan; valkyry1

I dated a black woman two decades ago, and I had no issues. There is a base canard in the black community that white men are deficient in — ahem! — certain areas. I proved to her satisfaction that this was not the case.


84 posted on 04/13/2010 1:25:12 PM PDT by Publius
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To: GeorgeSaden

Permit bigamy. I’m serious.
Sharing one good husband is better than having a non-husband in jail.

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To a large degree, this is already happening. Not bigamy, per se. But in many circumstances, it is expected that the man will step out and have children with other women.

And, sadly, it is not with a good man. Just any man will do.


85 posted on 04/13/2010 1:25:25 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
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To: HIDEK6

The era of mass imprisonment began as traditional mores were already crumbling,
Coincidence or cause-and-effect?

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Deliberate and intentional.

Thanks to LBJ.


86 posted on 04/13/2010 1:28:06 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
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To: MrB
women, controlling access to sex, are THE civilizing factor in any culture.

Even Judith Martin, aka Miss Manners, noted that in one of her columns: "Men will behave as badly as the women around them will tolerate."
87 posted on 04/13/2010 1:32:15 PM PDT by Ellendra (Can't starve us out, and you can't make us run. . . -Hank Jr.)
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To: The_Reader_David
Given the volume of laws promulgated even before the present Congress’s madness, and regulations implementing them, many of which carry criminal sanctions, are you absolutely sure *you* aren’t a felon?

There's a book out called "Three Felonies A Day" that says exactly that. The author has a website at http://www.threefelonies.com/ with some specific case studies.
88 posted on 04/13/2010 1:39:04 PM PDT by Ellendra (Can't starve us out, and you can't make us run. . . -Hank Jr.)
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To: unclebankster

Maybe, just maybe, at the great risk of sounding like a racist, if all those black men are being locked up for violent crimes, then perhaps they’re not the sort of men those black women would want for a lifelong partner anyway.


89 posted on 04/13/2010 1:41:03 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: unclebankster
Some snippets from various paragraphs:

And many women also steer clear of ex-cons, which makes a big difference when one young black man in three can expect to be locked up at some point.

For obvious reasons, convicts are excluded from the dating pool.

For similar crimes, America imposes much harsher penalties than other rich countries.

But jail is a big part of the problem, argue Kerwin Kofi Charles, now at the University of Chicago, and Ming Ching Luoh of National Taiwan University.

Well, it is very clear to me that the problem is America!. /s

I am so fed up with idiots who write drivel like this. Did these sphincters actually get paid to do this research? For what purpose? They already state that convicts are out of the dating pool, and then go on to spout that these poor unfortunates are put in jai for too long! We are sooooo evil.

The removal of black men from “circulation” certainly can’t have anything to do with them being criminals could it? What a bunch of crap.

90 posted on 04/13/2010 1:44:55 PM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Totally agree. I have similar experience and would never imply (certainly hope it didnt’ seem so) any less. As so many others have pointed out the issue is far more complex than the author of this piece wants to deal with.


91 posted on 04/13/2010 2:22:00 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: unclebankster

Stop dating exclusively black men... problem solved.


92 posted on 04/13/2010 2:27:23 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Pan_Yan

lol


93 posted on 04/13/2010 2:27:42 PM PDT by surfer (To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
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To: hinckley buzzard
If you stop incarcerating even nonviolent criminals you will have the streets crawling with nonviolent criminals. Just what the little woman wants in her neighborhood, to choose from for Mr Right.

I know, huh? "Would you like Bachelor number one, Mr. Breaking & Entering, Bachelor number two, Mr. Drug Dealer, or Bachelor number three, Sir Embezzlement?"

94 posted on 04/13/2010 2:33:05 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (If one racist Tea-Partier proves all conservatives hate, what do 500 Muslim suicide bombers prove?)
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To: SmokingJoe

There have got to be a few thousand Yao Mings that haven’t been found and/or can’t play basketball. Just saying.


95 posted on 04/13/2010 3:13:09 PM PDT by Eyes Unclouded ("The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -George Carlin)
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To: unclebankster
This is a chicken and egg argument.

Black families were intact with Mother , Father and kids up until Johnson's great society.

When Uncle Sam became the sugar daddy... Marriage as an institution became uncoupled from having kids.

Women became parents at younger ages and the children sired were half siblings to one another.

Without a male figure and with an often illiterate mother.. Kids were raised in the streets with the gang culture insuring they would be future inmates of prison.

Ultimately it comes down once again to the government caused the problem and the government sustains the problem.

96 posted on 04/13/2010 3:25:47 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Liberals are educated above their level of intelligence.. Thanks Sr. Angelica)
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To: throwback

I myself find Chinese men attractive: http://www.cheekopek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Jet-Li.jpg

He loves me, he just doesn’t know it yet!


97 posted on 04/13/2010 3:26:02 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: A_perfect_lady
so my butt isn’t tiny, but it’s not huge

How would we know without pictures :-/ ?

98 posted on 04/13/2010 4:03:41 PM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: Niuhuru
I myself find Chinese men attractive.

Asian men seem to be at the bottom of the totem pole of inter racial dating. The stereotype of their dorkiness is shared by their own women. I married a Korean woman and hoped for girls. Thank God I got them.

99 posted on 04/13/2010 4:09:27 PM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: Minn

I don’t think so. I would prefer a dorky guy to a high strung jerk.


100 posted on 04/13/2010 4:18:05 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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