“For millions of black women, many blessed with brains and beauty, finding the right man is proven elusive. Are their standards to high or are the pickings to slim?”
When I first heard of this special, the first thought that came to mind was “Oh brother…another program to make black women look bad”…But after watching, this may very well be an attack on black men. Some points raised during the segment:
42% of black women have never been married, that’s doubled that of never married white women
There are 1.8 million more black women than black men
Take the available black men, eliminate those without a high school diploma, those without a job and the number of black men between the ages of 25-34 that are incarcerated that leaves only half of those black men that’s eligible to pop the question.
Steve Harvey says that black women shouldn’t have to settle but they should atleast compromise. My thing is, people say that some black women standards are too high but bw’s standards are about as high as other races of women. So it’s not that their standards are too high, it just may be that their standards are too high for the pool of men that are available to them.
Also during the special they made it a point to mention that most black women chose to stick with dating within their race versus venturing off into interracial relationships.
