Yesterday an article came out on msnbc.com entitled "Marriage Eludes High-Achieving Black Women". In this article two Yale researchers supposedly crunched some numbers, did some interviews, and came to the conclusion that the more educated and successful sisters became, the less likely they are to get married and have a family if they so choose. Now maybe my c.o.n. spiracy spidey senses are off a bit but I saw so much innuendo and so many disturbing undertones in this article it literally fucked up my whole day. No for real....I was in a pissy mood for the remainder of the day!
They said that single sisters were hesitant to have a child because they didnt wanna seem "ghetto", but when a single white women has a child she is deemed "liberal". Also that another reason for this trend is that there arent enough highly educated/accomplished brothers to go around. And the when the brothers are highly educated/accomplished they tend to "outmarry" AKA marry anybody else but a sister.
I know propaganda when I read it dammit!!! Please heed the words of the great Chuck D yall....'Dont believe the hype'.
"So THEY say we're running out of time/ We're running out of water/ We're running out of ...