"'Black women are in market failure,' says writer Karyn Langhorne Folan," according to theWashington Post. "'The solution is to find a new market for your commodity. And in this case, we are the commodity and the new market is men of other races,'" Folan is the author of a new book coming out this month—Don't Bring Home a White Boy: And Other Notions That Keep Black Women From Dating Out—that urges black women to date interracially. She's just one voice in "a broadening debate in recent years fueled by the blogosphere, the entertainment industry and comments by prominent African Americans." Tyler Perry and Whoopi Goldberg are two of those prominent voices that have encouraged black women to date outside of their race. It's just simple math. The U.S. Census found that single black female college graduates outnumber single black male college graduates nearly 3-to-1 in major urban areas. "By promoting interracial love for some black women, Folan explains that she is not suggesting that there aren't any good, single black men out there, or that every educated single black woman will not find an educated black mate," theWashington Post explained. "She is not bashing all black men or implying that all black women are aiming for the alter. The writer, mom and Harvard-educated lawyer says that she is just offering a reasonable solution to the shortage of available black men."Thursday, February 25, 2010
Black women encouraged to date outside race
"'Black women are in market failure,' says writer Karyn Langhorne Folan," according to theWashington Post. "'The solution is to find a new market for your commodity. And in this case, we are the commodity and the new market is men of other races,'" Folan is the author of a new book coming out this month—Don't Bring Home a White Boy: And Other Notions That Keep Black Women From Dating Out—that urges black women to date interracially. She's just one voice in "a broadening debate in recent years fueled by the blogosphere, the entertainment industry and comments by prominent African Americans." Tyler Perry and Whoopi Goldberg are two of those prominent voices that have encouraged black women to date outside of their race. It's just simple math. The U.S. Census found that single black female college graduates outnumber single black male college graduates nearly 3-to-1 in major urban areas. "By promoting interracial love for some black women, Folan explains that she is not suggesting that there aren't any good, single black men out there, or that every educated single black woman will not find an educated black mate," theWashington Post explained. "She is not bashing all black men or implying that all black women are aiming for the alter. The writer, mom and Harvard-educated lawyer says that she is just offering a reasonable solution to the shortage of available black men."
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Of all the things I think I take offense to in that article, it'd be that she refers to men of other races as "a reasonable solution to the shortage of available black men," as if there was a perfect 1-1 ratio everything would be peachy. I understand the intent, but I think we need to restructure how we as cultures address interracial couples if we want to really change anything. I know that when my brother first brought his (now-ex) Caucasian girlfriend home to meet the family, my Grandmother was alot less than understanding of the situation. And then there are arguments of "Well they're just from different times." Anyone who was born in the 1940s has seen this world change more than people in my generation can imagine, and tolerating intolerance has no real excuse. (I think it fair to mention that I personally have not dated within my own race yet. It's not an issue of choice, just an issue of not having met a Black guy I'm attracted to.) If people were just open and honest of their feelings and ignored race in matters such as this, I think alot more people would be alot more happy. This issue of race is, unfortunately, a large factor within the African American community.
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