With respect to this whole issue of black male loyalty, the objective facts have something to say about this supposed flight of black men away from black women and towards white women. This chart comes from 2010 US census data
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So these are the percentages of married men of each racial/ethnic group that have married their own racial/ethnic group:
White: 95.2%
Black: 87.5%
Hispanic: 85.0%
Other: 81.4%
...In other words, the only more "loyal" group than black men is white men. "Others" don't even marry other "others" as often, and there are all kinds of different "others" that would fit that designation (e.g. East Asians, South Asians, American Indians, etc.) A simple explanation for this finding is the sheer number of whites in America relative to other groups. When there are nearly 6 times as many white women to choose from as black women, the odds of any particular male marrying any particular female are necessarily skewed in favor of white women.
And yet, as the first column shows, black men are actually the LEAST white-woman-marrying minority group. Observe the percentage of married men in each racial/ethnic group married to white women:
White: 95.2%
Black: 8.1%
Hispanic: 13.3%
Other: 16.2%
So perhaps we should quit trying to make generalizations about the dating and marital preferences of all black men from looking at Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Tiger Woods.
Works Cited
U.S. Census. (2010).
Table FG4. Married couple family groups, by presence of own children/1 in specific age groups, and age, earnings, education, and race and hispanic origin/2 of both spouses: 2010. Retrieved from
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fam/cps2010.html