I’m an African-American woman; must I have standards and screen out certain categories of men to optimize my chances for marriage?
Yes, if you’re serious about optimizing your lifestyle to include a healthy and wholesome marriage. I know that you’ve been bombarded with decades of propaganda encouraging you to lower your standards with Black men. You have to realize by now that dating and having children with ex-convicts, drug addicts, unemployed and unemployable men does not work well for women or children. In fact, dealing with such men can often result in fatalities. Consider Jennifer Hudson’s murdered relatives. You also have to realize by now that fatherless men are less likely to be effective husbands and fathers. How many examples must you see all around you before you acknowledge this plain truth? Some of you have become experts at pretending that the exceptions are the rule. Some of you pretend not to realize that Pres. Obama is the exception, not the rule, when it comes to fatherless men. For another example, some of you like to pretend that many (if not most) Black male ex-convicts are family men like Ma
