Comments on: What the Media Wants You to Think About Black Women https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/03/race-in-america-homepage-hot-t/ Wed, 05 May 2010 17:06:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Irene Delse https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/03/race-in-america-homepage-hot-t/#comment-518202 Wed, 05 May 2010 17:06:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/03/race-in-america-homepage-hot-t/#comment-518202 And let’s examine the high-achieving black woman marriage ‘crisis,’ the narrative that chafes me the most. This narrative harps on the fact that some professional black women have trouble finding partners, which puts a willfully negative spin on what could actually be a positive story. We’re talking about high-achieving black women with academic and professional success, who also happen to be single and child-free. We could be wondering what’s right with these women that allowed them to find success in a society where the odds are stacked against them. What can we learn from black girls, for instance, that can help us raise black boys to equal rates of education and success? Instead, we devote ink and film to discovering what’s wrong with these women that they don’t have an Mrs. to go with their PhDs.

Uncanny how that narrative could have been about “high-achieving women” (meaning, mostly, white women) about, oh, twenty years ago…

]]> By: Virgil Samms https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/03/race-in-america-homepage-hot-t/#comment-518201 Tue, 04 May 2010 08:31:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/03/race-in-america-homepage-hot-t/#comment-518201 Blaock Lois Lane

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/03/race-in-america-homepage-hot-t/#comment-518200 Tue, 04 May 2010 00:33:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/03/race-in-america-homepage-hot-t/#comment-518200 My black sons, with advanced degrees, prefer to date black women with college degrees, preferably advanced degrees. They both find intelligent,well educated women, well traveled women the most attractive and sexy.

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