Evia is up to her old desperate tricks again. I guess I will take on the assignment of exposing her. This time she relies on the old standby that marriages between Black women/Non-Black Men are some panacea while passive-agressively taking a shot at couples featuring Black Men and White women.In the video posted on her site, it qouted the following from the Education Resources Information Center:
The literature on interracial families has examined social stigmas attached to interracial relationships but has not thoroughly documented whether crossing racial boundaries increases the risk of divorce. Using the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (Cycle VI), we compare the likelihood of divorce for interracial couples to that of same-race couples. Comparisons across marriage cohorts reveal that, overall, interracial couples have higher rates of divorce, particularly for those marrying during the late-1980s. We also find race and gender variation. Compared to White/White couples, White female/Black male, and White female/Asian male marriages were more prone to divorce; meanwhile, those involving non-White females and White males and Hispanics and non-Hispanic persons had similar or lower risks of divorce.
First problem is that it is only an abstract. The Something Screwed Crew (SSC) loves qouting that abstract. Has any of them ever read the whole Journal article? Has any of them ever provided any official statistics regarding how individual groups fair when marrying interracial? Is there an official break down showing how Black women/White Men vs. Asian Women/White men couples do? If anyone has these stats please provide them.
Second issue is notice the part I italicized states non-White females. Somehow Evia and the producer of that video ignores that part and morphs non-White females into Black females and the video showed nothing about any other non-White female group, which is what the stat inferred. If the majority of White men in interracial relationships are involved with non-Black females, (mostly Asian women), then isn't most of the credit due to non-Black women?
The third issue is the funniest to me. While parading the various Black women/Non-Black men featured in the video (I thought that the abstract was about White men/Non-White women?) this supposedly educated woman and her video rattles off a ordinal ranking listing of the "most successful interracial marriages". Where did they get this info from? Cosmo magazine! Excuse me, I am going to damage my ribs laughing.
Time to shed some light on the truth.
Reality Check 1 - If Black women are such great marriage partners with such successful marriages, then why are 70% of them single? Why aren't Non-black men beating a path to their doors and pursuing them like they do all other groups of women?
Reality Check 2 - If Black Men/White women couples are so poor in relation to Black Women/White men, then why in 2007 were there as many Black Women/White Men couples (126,000) as there were Black Men/White Women couples (122,000) in 1980? In other words, in terms of the number of couples, Black Women/White Men couples are 27 years behind.
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/tables/09s0059.pdf
Reality Check 3 - Why is this even a competition? Why does someone else need to fail in order for Evia and the SSC to feel successful? I can throw out stats too. Did you know that children fathered in Black Men/White Women relationships have an IQ that is 8-9 points higher than children fathered in Black women/White Men relationships? Google Willerman, Naylor and Myrianthopoulos for more info. When the Black Man/White Woman were married, the IQ is 104.7, higher than the average White (which is around 100). If Black Women/White Men couples were so magically successful, why don't they produce offspring that are more likely to succeed?
Ultimate Reality Check - Ultimately who cares? People don't marry groups, they marry individuals. Or at least that is what they should strive to. If you are in a relationship with someone and that person makes you happy, why do you care what your groups stats say.
4 comments:
That's why they run from opposing points of view. Their lies are so transparent, they wouldn't dare debate. Anyone with common sense can see the way they try to make "non-white" synonymous with "black". Clearly, this stat indicates that white men/Asian woman marriages are more stable than average. The stat on white men/black women marriages is hidden due to some weird political correctness or something.
I saw that abstract back when they posted it on White Women Suck. Since then they have been recycling it all over the place And I mean ALL OVER, on message boards, forums, anywhere they can..
and you are right, none of them have read the entire article and the abstract itself says nothing that they can really use to prove anything.
That being said, I don't think there is any reason to assume that WM/BW IR marriages are more likely to divorce or are worse than any other marriage, but right now there just isn't a big enough pool and variety of this kind of couple to accurately judge or draw any connection to success rates and the race of the individuals involved alone.
For example, such couples (WM/BW) more uniformly marry at an older age than the average BM/BF or BM/WF couple, which in and of itself carries a reduced divorce risk.
There are other similar factors that need to be considered, which is why I don't give too much weight to arguments based on such flat statistics.
Bro,
need over at the other place ASAP..got my hands full!
ooops, it menelik!
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