Planning to go see Jumping the Broom this weekend? In case some of your friends balk at seeing it, saying it’s “not realistic,” make sure you make them read this article from theloop21.com, Jumping the Broom to Conclusions: 4 Myths About Black Marriage.
An excerpt:
The truth is that African Americans do actually get married and at a fairly regular clip. Have marriage rates gone down? Of course they have for black people and everyone else, however African Americans were the only demographic group to post stable marriage rates over the last 10 years. While only 30 percent of African American adults are married, that number didn’t change from 2000 to 2010 while other groups, Whites, Asians, and Latinos marriage rates declined. Bet you won’t hear that one the next Black in America special.
Now runtelldat. LOL. To read the rest of the article, click here.
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oh PLEASE. 30% getting married is pathetic. That still means 70 PERCENT OF BLACK WOMEN remain unmarried…and usually it’s the man that asks the woman to be his wife, so that means 70% of black women are not wanted by their own men. And the article itself points out that in online and offline dating black women are approached the LEAST by all men. A steady rate of something over the last 10 years is NOTHING to be proud of if the rate is a rate of nearly total failure! If our children come home with 30% scores on tests for the past 10 years, are we going to congratulate them for keeping a steady pace of EXTREME FAILURE for the last 10 years???? smh Black people need to stop trying to find a way to turn UGLY TRUTHS on their head and face it and fix it instead. 70% of women left in the lurch is ridiculous, cause technically that then means only 30% of black people in this country should be having children, and we know that’s not what’s happening! Get a grip. It should be 70% of us MARRYING not the other way around!
way too many of us black folk condone t his shacking up and having kids as teens with different dads. I am married 19 years and have a 19 year old college attending daughter. It aint all roses but we push through and i mean through cancer, surgeries, everything all for validating our marriage our daughter