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The Fight for a Man's Rights
Bothersome new trend: these articles, which have sprung up in the wake of the film Something New, in which black women lament the dearth of "marriageable" black men.

It's not like it hurts my feelings or anything (since when is it my goal to be marriageable?), but I do find it unfair. I mean, what's the likelihood of seeing the opposite: an article in which single black men (such as myself!) lament the dearth of available black women who possess the kind of traits a man might find desirable in a woman... like, I don't know, the ability to grow a full, healthy head of hair, or a generally positive outlook on life?

Exactly!

You can check the latest of these articles, which is appearing a good year-plus since the film was last in theaters, on the CNN website. A guy emailed it to me the other day and was like, "Dude, I know you're going to comment on this!" Have I become that predictable? Well, whatever.

'Could Mr. Right be white?' More black women consider 'dating out'

The thing is, since last year there was that story in the New York Times about how more women these days are unmarried than they are married, and how most black women (who are really the ones dragging down the statistics) don't stand a snowball's chance in heck of finding a spouse, "marriageable" or otherwise, and I think that's served as a wake up call to a lot of women; the difference between finally getting married, or dying poor and lonely in the ghetto just like their mothers and their grandmothers before them, could be hitching oneself to a crack-ass cracka.

I guess, to hear the CNN story tell it, they aren't so hard up as to consider an Asian, but the idea of so many black women considering white men as their "safety" does seem rather presumptous, no? Hmm... I've been having a hard time making ends meet myself; maybe I'll just go marry Scarlett Johannsson. Who knows, maybe she's really into underground hip-hop and atheism and... um, the Real World. Stop being so racist.

Here's my thing: Isn't all of this talk about how a black woman can't find a man, because so many black men these days are incapable of holding down a steady, good-paying job, a tacit admission that women are basically whores looking to take a brother for his money? What ever happened to liking a man, and perhaps even marrying him, just because he's a good person?

It's especially ironic when you consider that black women are so quick to play the race card, accusing successful black men of marrying white women because they're viewed as status symbols. You wonder if it ever occurred to them that maybe these women just possess more of the traits men find desirable in women.

Peep this bit from the CNN story:

"I think a lot of black women are realizing or feeling that the pickings are slim," [blogger Evia Moore] said.

They're made even slimmer, grumble many black women, by high rates of successful black men choosing blondes. For some, they argue, white wives are the ultimate status symbol.

"They don't want a dark chocolate sister laying around their swimming pool," Moore said.

So wait, when a brother who has the means goes out and finds himself a snow bunny that's gotta be some sort of race issue, but when a black woman marries a white man because he's got a lot of money that's just normal? Pshaw!


This is from Bol at Byron Crawford.com.