Is Marriage for White People?

Sunday, Sep 18^th 2011

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This new book is bound to raise a few eyebrows. Is he right?

By Editorial Staff

SixSeeds' own Rick Banks has been all over the news because of his controversial new book that tackles a difficult subject. In "Is Marriage for White People: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone," he explains some startling facts. For example, black women now receive twice as many bachelor’s degrees as black men. Black women are also more likely than any other ethnic group to be better educated than their husbands. In other words, they are constantly "marrying down," in every way. Even worse, 70% of all black children are now born to unwed mothers.

So what to do? Banks provocatively suggests black women marry outside their own race for better potential fathers of their children.

"It's time for black women to stop being held hostage to the deficiencies of black men," he says.

Rick has been all over the news. Please see below his latest media appearances, and listen to him discuss his controversial new book.

Congratulations, Rick!

Recent Media:

Interview with Time Magazine

FoxNews

Why Black Women are Justifiably Bitter in New York Daily News

Appearance on the Tom Joyner Show

A Short Talk with Rick Banks:

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Comments

by Dave Thom #

on Friday, Sep 23^rd 2011 @ 9:35am

Hello Rick, thanks for your comments. I don't have your book yet. Read somewhere that fewer white people are in churches because of a kind of multi-layered effect: because of poverty, they're not married. Because they're in poverty, they feel like they don't measure up to the "doing well financially" people in church. Because of shacking up, they feel people in church would look down on them. So, if they did better financially, they'd be married and they'd feel included with others doing well financially, and they'd be in church. So, could it be that the original comment, "Marriage is for white people" is really about marriage being for well-enough-off-financially white people. Your suggestion (?) that black women marry non-black men will be true enough depending on who is in church, if black women are being much better educated and therefore better off financially and therefore comfortable in church. Will they find black men in church? No. So they will marry white men. But it'll be because there's comfort in being with "people like ourselves" and the people like ourselves will be a class issue and not a race issue. Your thoughts?

by Rita Griffin #

on Tuesday, Sep 27^th 2011 @ 15:12pm

Very interesting... ALLLLL women should read this book!!! Very informative...hummm

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