A cybercitizen, by name Robin Landry has advanced reasons black American women largely remain unmarried regardless of their education and industry.
He wrote:
“A lot of the answers here say that welfare is to blame, but I don’t agree. There are a lot of college-educated professional black women who remain unmarried far longer than their white counterparts for a variety of reasons.
I have been married twice. My first husband was a black man that I began dating when we were in college. We both had professional careers, owned a home, 2 cars, and didn’t have our first (and only) child until we had been married for 3 years. After 5 and 1/2 years we divorced (he was cheating) and I then remained single for 12 years before marrying my current husband (a white man).
During those 12 years in the dating pool I encountered a number of issues. I had men tell me that they didn’t want to marry a woman who earned more money than they did or they didn’t want one who was smarter or more educated than they were. There were black men who told me that they were only interested in dating white women and other black men who said that they didn’t want to date me because my skin was “too light” and that I sounded “too white” when I spoke.
When I started dating white men, these things were no longer an issue. My current husband went to vocational school instead of college, had a blue collar job when I met him, and later started a lawn care business. He has never minded that I earned more than he did and encouraged me when I decided to return to school in my 40s for a Master’s degree so that I could change careers.
Interestingly, though, some of those same black men who told me that they preferred to date white women, ridiculed me for marrying a white man. One time I was walking with a white boyfriend and a random black man yelled at me to “stop playing in the snow.”
I worked at a large corporation for 26 years and many of my black female colleagues, attractive, educated, well-spoken professional women had similar experiences. The so-called “welfare” mentality just didn’t apply. Instead it is inthe rigid dating criteria that a lot of black men have and the idea that black women shouldn’t date or marry non-black men that keep a lot of black women single.”