How many women, black or white, go into the sciences and technical fields? If 66% of black college graduates are females, the comparison to whites becomes more skewed.
Women tend to desire husbands who are as educated or more educated than they are, which makes marriage more difficult for black women with higher education degrees. According to an analysis by the Brookings Institution, the percentage of black women college graduates aged 25 to 35 who have never married is 60 percent, compared to 38 percent for white college-educated women.
Further, only 2 percent of highly-educated white women had children out of wedlock, whereas 26 percent of black women with four-year degrees did.
The issue seems to be social and cultural, which may explain the differences in financial outcomes.
And that is what I, and many others, have been saying. The American Black culture is sick.
You simply cannot have an out-of-wedlock birthrate of something north of 70% for generation after generation without dire consequences across the spectrum. Even the author of this piece points to evidence that boys are often more affected by single mother households. We are seeing decades of empirical evidence of boys -now men- who exist only by the law of the jungle. This is so utterly tragic when one considers the toll of so many ruined and lost lives.
And again, I place a lot of blame on Black pastors who seem so much more interested in street cred and accumulating wealth than in preaching to these lost souls. Where are the pastors and men of God railing against the corrosive lifestyles of a sick Black culture. No, they laugh at the comedians. They laugh at the inside Black culture jokes. Shame! Shame on them!