We ran across this video from BlackPublicMedia.org that features an online program that they run titled, Black Folk Don’t. This episode addresses the notion that “Black Folk Don’t: Get Married.” It includes Toure, Melissa Harris-Perry, our good friend Abiola Abrams and others challenging the myth that marriage doesn’t take place in the black community. Check it out and let us know what you think about the video and the perspectives featured during the clips. You can check out more from the series at BlackFolkDont.com.
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It seems like now a days it’s hard to find black folk who are ready and willing to say I do, at least that’s what all the media coverage about single black women says. Is this a generational issue or are black folk allergic too long term commitment? Or are they just committing in different ways outside the mainstream?
I agree with the last sista “let’s stop playing into these statistics!” The same things that Blacks folks supposedly don’t do…NEWS FLASH!!! White folks, Asian folks and Hispanics also don’t do them either… Where are the numbers on the amount of white women who are not married?
It’s a generational choice (not issue) and it deals with the refreshing separation of intelligent thought and religious dogma. Marriage is a choice and with the expense, double standards, and immense unpopularity it has with career-driven, information age people it just isn’t the thing to do anymore. You can chalk this up to many things, but in the end it is now unpopular with every race (not a black thing) in 2012.