"Dark skinned black girls don't get married" 55%-23% disparity

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But my feelings of a necessary drop in standards have been validated by research from Dr Darrick Hamilton, a professor of economics and sociology at Ohio State University. Hamilton aggregated information from the 2003 Multi-City Study of Urban Equality to identify why so many dark-skinned women who date men remain bachelorettes. His assessment was designed to show how the imbalance of eligible black males – taking into account high incarceration rates and a limited labor market – affects the marriage market.

His research shows that a scarcity in available “high-status” husbands (defined as higher levels of education, not growing up on public assistance, coming from neighborhoods that had less crime), effectively leave black men in control of the dating selection process. His data concluded 55% of light-skinned women were married while only 23% of dark-skinned women had jumped the broom.

“[Black men] have unnatural power within marriage markets that enables them to bid up cursory characteristics like skin shade,” Hamilton told me over the phone. In other words, the lighter the female, the higher the probability of marriage. “One of the results that we found was that [darker-complexioned] black women who have ‘higher status’ faced a greater penalty in marriage markets than those with a lower socioeconomic status.”

According to his research, I am the epitome of the “high-status” option. College educated, familial middle class background, age 16-30, able-bodied. But according to the equation, I haven’t the “social capital” (read: skin tone) to seek a quality match.

But before even entertaining thoughts of marriage, I have to get past the dating stage. Turner says she often sees black men pass up perfectly eligible dark-skinned women. “Black men will say, ‘complexion doesn’t matter’, but they might give that lighter complexion woman who is very comparable to a darker-complexion woman a chance, when they wouldn’t give that darker-skinned woman a chance.”

 

[King Poetic]

Wait for the coli nikkas to say I love dark skinned women or that’s my preference

But I can believe that article, do to a lot of nikkas growing up watching these tv shows and movies showing majority of nikkas going for lighter skinned women

And it won’t change no time soon,, just look at these young nikkas on YouTube and comments on chicks on Instagram and Twitter

 

[Max Power]

Jesus fukking Christ

The final decision lays with women. Choose better.

 

[BigMan]

Bullshyt nonsense used by poor quality women to justify why no one wants to marry them

 

[GodinDaFlesh]

Light skin chicks more submissive

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/the-redbone-specimen-was-specifically-created-for-the-black-mans-enjoyment.701746/#post-33235944

 

[kevm3]

Shes pretty much coming with that i'm prime marriage material because I have a degree but qll black men are gay and in jail and the light skinned women are stealing the men rhetoric which we have had to hear for decades.

 

[Mirin4rmfar]

I mean a lot of dudes have complexion issues. I personally dont care. My main issue is women who do not physically take care of themselves and are fat.

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

Post some pics of these women...this shyt is already bias since most Black women would be dark skinned anyways...so of course a larger amount would be single since most Black women ain't married in the first place

I wonder how skin tone is judged since we all got different opinions of what's light and what's dark...ain't many light skinned women compared to dark in my neck of the woods...mixed chicks shouldn't be included in the study

 

[reasonable_doubter]

Even if this were true..... couldn't they (ds bw) just date outside of the group? Might have more success doing so....

....and about the lack of mates..... sigh.... when you focus solely on girls and abandon boys, what did you think was going to happen......

 

[Benjamin Sisko]

I didn’t know the census counts “dark-skinned” and “light skinned” women. When does one become “dark” and when does one become “light”?? Ridiculous.

 

[Cᵣₐₛₕ&ₜₕₑCₒᵤₚ]

The levels of shea butter woe is me is deplorable.​

 

[mamba]

Black women are always complaining about relationships, etc.

I thought they were strong and independent? That they didn't need a man?

 

[Turlast]

I don't doubt that a lot of gorgeous DSBW are passed up for lighter or non-BW. Seen quite a few examples of this irl to know that it happens.

But I've also seen the opposite happen.

At the end of the day, you can't just blame everything solely on your skin color. I know a sista that assumed a BM didn't hold the door open because she was dark, didn't say "have a good day" at the department store because she was dark, didn't ask for her # because she was dark. It's ashame because she's a really nice woman--but her emphasis on her complexion has totally fukked her outlook on life. It's sad.

Regardless, if you were to go by what's said online, 90% of BM are dating non-BW, biracial women, or lightskin women. Stepping out into the real world is enough to verify that this is horseshyt.

 

[Rollo Goodlove]

Sucks for yall mabye yall shoudlve been nicer to lightskin nikkas

 

[WheresWallace]

Since when did they care about dark-skin black women (black people in general)? :camron:

They made this article to fukk with black women's self esteem. They same way ABC had that special about "black women not getting married". Stop spreading this propaganda bullshiit. Especially when cacs get married and divorce after 3 years.

Relationships in general in America are in trouble.