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ABC: The Latest To Venture Into Why Black Women Aren’t Married
December 31st, 2009
…proof of America’s stupid media and failing math education.
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Again, we have a demonstration of how dangerous stupid people can be with statistics. The following article and video report on this subject, in part, reads as follows:
Single, Black, Female — and Plenty of Company
A High Proportion of Black Women Have Never Married; Four Friends Talk With Steve Harvey About Why
By LINSEY DAVIS and HANA KARAR
Dec. 22, 2009
“Let’s take 100 black men. By the time you eliminate those without a high school diploma (21 percent), the unemployed (17 percent) and those ages 25-34 who are incarcerated (8 percent), you have only half of black men, 54 percent, whom many black women find acceptable.”
– see here
Most of those three groups are the same people. You can’t just add them together and claim that 46 percent of black men have either no high school diploma, are unemployed or are incarcerated. One tends to lead to the other which tends to lead the next.
This is a professional major news outlet, and this is the dumb, ignorant, mathematically deficient crap they bring to the table?
This is why our society is so ill-informed and ignorant. The people charged with providing us information and understanding are this lazy and inept; and continuously misinforming and misguiding the public. This here is simply a microcosm of the routine nonsense we get from major media, and again proves my continuing thesis about major media. But keep blaming bloggers as the problem.
If time permits, I’ll do a piece on the issue of the article. Did the part 2.
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Ahhh, I see. Good point, Yo. Excellent point, actually.
The equation is simply so much more complicated than having one available black man for every available black woman. I know plenty of married black folks in my age group. But like with most things in life people tend to lack the ability to be self-critical and reflective. Being attractive and employed makes you no more “marriageable” in my book than being a single black man. There’s much more to that. I would really like to be on set of one of these things and ask the women what kind of people they are, what are their hobbies, how do they view the world, their politics, what do they talk about and think about, what makes them unique and a contributing member to not just the economy but to the world community.
Maybe some of them are beautiful and financially stable but stupid? Or mean? Or lazy? Or selfish? Or petty?
Who knows but I know that the questions can be more probing and more respectful of what marriage truly constitutes. This dating math just reinforces a false sense of scarcity that makes men unnecessarily cocky and women horribly desperate. How many single black men does one black woman need to get married? Just one. And that’s the real math.
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Touche’ Tressie.
Very good and well articulated points all the way around. I raise some of the same issues in my Part 2 that I just posted.
People, both male and female, need to stop focusing so much on the stats of the person (income, measurements, status, ect), and focus more on the quality of the person.
So often when I hear people asked what do they look for in a mate, they’ll give an answer like “some body who’s funny and likes to have fun”.
What the fuck does that have to do with sharing your life with a person, or the quality of that person?
First of all, the people who have the most fun (in the hyper-senses, party way in which they mean) are often some of the most irresponsible and self absorbed people who spend all their time and energy on frivilous shit. And yeah, I think everyone likes to laugh, but entertaining you should not be your top priority.
I mean folks are so friggin shallow, particularly in their approach to dating, its no wonder their relationships are so meaningless.
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