hat the men are racist andsexist for getting sore about it. All they can agree upon is that MediaStereotypes and/or Low Self-Esteem must somehow be at fault.LET'S review other facts about intermarriage and how they violateconventional sociological theories.1. You would normally expect more black women than black men to marry whitesbecause far more black women are in daily contact with whites. First, amongblacks aged 20-39, there are about 10 per cent more women than men alive.Another tenth of the black men in these prime marrying years are literallylocked out of the marriage market by being locked up in jail, and maybetwice that number are on probation or parole. So, there may be nearly 14young black women for every 10 young black men who are alive and unentangledwith the law. Further, black women are far more prevalent than black men inuniversities (by 80 per cent in grad schools), in corporate offices, and inother places where members of the bourgeoisie, black or white, meet theirmates.Despite these opportunities to meet white men, so many middle-class blackwomen have trouble landing satisfactory husbands that they have made Terry(Waiting to Exhale) McMillan, author of novels specifically about and forthem, into a best-selling brand name. Probably the most popular romanceadvice regularly offered to affluent black women of a certain age is to findtrue love in the brawny arms of a younger black man. Both Miss McMillan's1996 best-seller How Stella Got Her Groove Back and the most celebrated ofall books by black women, Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 classic Their Eyes WereWatch- ing God, are romance novels about well-to-do older women and somewhatdangerous younger men. Of course, as Miss Hurston herself later learned atage 49, when she (briefly) married a 23-year-old gym coach, that seldomworks out in real life.2. Much more practical-sounding advice would be: Since there are so manyunmarried Asian men and black women, they should find solace f...
