Saturday, April 7, 2007
The 70th Precentile
70 percent of African- American women in America are Single. That's 19 percent more than the overall number of single women in this country. I am a card carrying member of that group. I understand that everyone doesn't want to be married, but I'm sure that's the minority of this number. When I heard this stat I became really alarmed. I thought; "what does this mean for me?" I often dream of the day that I'll meet a man that I want to spend the rest of my life with, and one that feels the same about me. I want to get married. I want to have children. Although I'm fairly young, these numbers make me wonder if that will ever be. I'm sitting here thinking about the circle of young women in my life that are of marrying age and only two have tied the knot. The rest of us aren't near the string. One of reasons discussed as to why so many black women were single.... was because we fail to venture out. Honestly, I have no problem with interracial dating. If I met someone that caught my attention then i'd definitely go with it. However, I perfer a BLACK man. I want BROWN babies. I want to perserve the BLACK family. Cause soon we'll be extinct.
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I love this post. It echoes quite a few of my sentiments on this whole "single" thing. It's so funny how the older I get the further I push my deadline back. When I was young I thought I would be married by 21...then it became 25...then it became 30...now I am still holding on to 30 but oy ve it's not looking good.
Kim, when I saw this on Oprah my mouth dropped wide open! I'm not sure if I really want to be married, but damn it would be nice to have a steady boyfriend. I'll be 33 this summer & am starting to get used to the idea of being single.....
I think that alot of black girls should consider dating outside their race......it might be different but in the end if that person makes you happy,it's all worth it.No one wants to grow old alone.
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