Originally posted by IsiMan84
It's more like 3 percent, but lets say it's 4 percent. One half of one percent of those marriages are between whites and blacks. Most interracial marriages are between spanish and white. There's not such a stigma attached. So you can skew the numbers as you want. It still comes down to the fact that most people stick to their own race when it comes to dating and marriage.
If the Washington Post said 4% then I'm going with 4%. But besides that unimportant part, half a percent would still account for about 12% of the interracial marriages, which is roughly 200,000 black and white couples. Now this is assuming your half a percent is correct. Well according to the U.S. Census in 1998, 24.5% of interracial marriages were between black and white couples. That doubles the previous number to about 400,000 couples. And of those, 64% were with a black man and white woman.
Now you say that you don't see many blacks or whites together and then give your random marriage percentages etc., but in the course of the argument who ever said every white woman that was interested in a black man also wanted to
marry him? If we are simply talking about the dating scene (which I assume most are) that means using marriage statistics has only some but little relation to dating statistics. Also the average age of marriage is so much higher than in the past (26 for men, 25 for women) that marriage stats are going to have virtually no concurrence with the ideology people of dating age these days would necessarilyhave.
This proposes an interesting concept. When women finally
do marry they tend to look for a man with financial security first and then personality traits that they find desirable (I know sad, but true). Well one stereotype of most black men is that of a lack of financial security. A white woman might be interested in a black man for reasons other than marriage (read: huge wang, etc.). Yes these may be stereotypes, but stereotypes exist because
somebody somewhere believes it's true. If nobody believed any of it then it wouldn't be a stereotype. With that being said, a white woman could be curious about a black man with no intention of marriage. How often have you met or seen a girl somewhere and said "I'd hit that day and night but I would probably never marry someone like that." Well same case, different race. Correct me if I'm wrong but hasn't it been said, even on here, that a woman will be attracted to DJs when she is younger and curious and then find an AFC chump to marry when she finally decides to settle down (from who she can then get whatever she wants)?
Now from personal experience I can say am starting to see this, as in the last year and a half I have dealt with women of both sexes (4 white, 1 black). 3 of the 4 white women I did anything with it ended up being sexual and she acted like it was the last penis she would ever see, and after that the interest level appeared to drop and we never did anything again. Now the one black girl, all we did was make out once and she still hung around and still talked to me, and then we made out a few weeks later and then eventually she wanted a relationship etc. That was only from making out. The other 3 girls did me six ways from Sunday and then basically excused themselves from the table. Now I'm not going to consider my own situation a reliable statistic but there is a general concensus that the white women went for the ONS and got what they wanted out of it. Now you can even go as far to say a multitude of white women don't
date black men, to which I could say I agree to some extent. Because when I see some of my friends (or even just a random black man) leave the bars with up to 3 or 4 white women on a given night, I highly doubt he's dating all (if any) of them, unless the date is in his bedroom.
As for the resources which I used, there you go. I didn't make any numbers up.
http://inside.bard.edu/academic/specialproj/darling/transition/group4/Paper_3.html
http://clearinghouse.mwsc.edu/manuscripts/313.asp
http://www2.duq.edu/familyinstitute/templates/features/csmf/famstatus.html
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCR/is_1_34/ai_62839403 [/B][/QUOTE]
Now seriously; I actually went and checked all your sources. I'm not going to go through your whole argument and debunk each fact separately, because some of it is true, although you've skewed the statistics to make them sound more favorable to your argument. I'll breifly address a few of them:
1) Even if we accept the statistic that 24.5 percent of interracial marriages are between black and white, WE'RE TALKING 24.5 PERCENT OF 4 PERCENT, WHICH IS MINISCULE. Also if your 24.5 percent figure is right, what you're really saying is that more the 3/4 or 75.5 percent of interracial marriages ARE NOT BETWEEN BLACKS AND WHITES. See how one can skew statistics? Your percentage seems like a lot until you put it into perspective.
2) Considering the quality of white women that date or marry black men. According to your citation. "educated white women possessing a college degree are much less likely to marry a black man, and infact are more likely to marry an asian man" I think this speaks for itself. A lot of uneducated white women date black men. I'm not sure why that is, but that's the statistic.
3) Your inference that white women don't marry black men on a large scale, because they're more interested in fulfilling some "sexual fantasy" one night stand is laughable. Where are your statistics to back that up? You're assuming most white women find african american men attractive, which simply isn't the case.
I applaud your attempt to research this subject and cite sources, but please understand your sources before you try to push them off as something they're not.