@Savvir
This is essentially the point.
There’s a small amount of truly marriageable Black MEN and Black WOMEN out here.
I heard Jason Black say that earlier this year, and it’s true. If you are a truly eligible black man or woman you have your pick out here amongst your own race (AND interracially if that’s what you choose)
You talk about there being more women for men of other races to choose from, but there are more men available in other racial groups who are in better financial positions at younger ages. Those 24YO white girls are marrying the 26-27YO plumbers, electricians, accountants and engineers who are still building but STARTED their careers and finished their education. Not the 37YO who just cracked $120k or is just finding his footing.
The black men who are in college/the trades at 18, 19, 20, 21 are the Black men who are starting careers and making decent/good money by 27-30 and are ready to be family men and looking for wives at that age. Not men who are finding their stride at 37 and then saying it’s time to find a 24YO. Our community laughs at the Black men who get married before or at 30 (because they need to have their fun), but those guys are the ones who are actually marriageable and were raised to be prepared for marriage. If a white or Asian dude is 37 getting married it’s probably the SECOND marriage.
Same for women. Those raised in households where they were prepared for marriage might definitely get their education, but they were taught to cook, keep a home and to understand that a young man prepared for marriage is a man who isn’t looking at her earning ability as the main reason to marry her, so she leads with other traits and characteristics at a younger age because the guy who was truly raised to be ready for marriage is the guy who was raised to pursue a career that will set him up to provide for her.
A 24YO black woman with a 26YO electrician or accountant has no complaints. Where are the brehs who are ready to lock it down at that age like the other races? They exist, and the young women who are their counterparts are the women they are with.
When I say there are issues with both sexes that’s what I mean.
Yes, there are more women of other races raised in households where they are prepared for marriage, but there are more men of other races who are prepared to hit the ground running at the age of 30.
If
you date interracially you have a greater chance of bumping into a woman who is prepared for marriage. True.
If
I date interracially I have a greater chance of bumping into a man who comes from a community with a higher average household/male income. True.
The black community as a whole needs to do better. We have damn near the lowest household income and the most kids out of wedlock. We’re failing on both ends because neither sex is being properly reared and raised for adulthood.
Since the average age gap in American marriages is no more than 4 years:
If all we gotta do is be childless, ready to cook and keep a home by 25, do we have a community with enough financially and mentally prepared 26-30YO males ready to scoop up majority of young women who are 23-26?
Both sides need work. The black men and black women raised to get it right BOTH get it right at younger ages, like the other cultures that are marriage focused.
Other cultures focus on preparing daughters for marriage, but they also focus on pushing their sons into STEM careers or trades so they are financially prepared to start life by their late 20s.