The problem is, how desirable is desirable? In both the athlete and med student, if you want to get with a black woman, that is, a fellow student or someone at your level reasonably, you will have to be UTTERLY DEVOTED to that idea, ignore many non-black options (that are THROWING it at you), ignore pressures around you pushing you towards non-black options (especially with athletes but you see it in professional school - do you know how many times I heard about black women and their connection to herpes or obesity from attendings? More than I can count), ignore negativity from some black options (twitter wasn't much of an issue back in my day but holy shyt, I can't imagine now), and even more, ignore rejection (which will make a breh question himself more so that anything). And that's assuming the girl is not already with someone <--- This is the issue I had actually: I assumed all the black women in my class and so on were already in relationships and I thought to myself "how awesome these black women are! Being so faithful to their boyfriends unlike some these white women - true queens! You go girl!" ( in regard to the ww, they were trying to trade-up a few of them). Little did I know, of the black women, only one was married, and two had boyfriends. The rest were single, while everyone else had picked out a boyfriend within the first month of first year and who they would settle down with come graduation. My point is, at some point, some women need to stop thinking they are this ultimate prize and be realistic because there are many options out there that can rival them without them realizing it due to many factors outside of their control and not entirely their fault. They have to take into consideration all that is working against them and that there are many things stacked against them. That's why a lot of times, I actually feel bad for black women who really want a black man, especially a "high value" one. They have it rough in some ways. The guy that they want will have already been taken.