According to statistical info the sex ratio of blacks in institutes of higher education is roughly 1/3 male, 2/3 female. This is not surprising due to the fact that aproximately 1/3 of college aged black men are somehow emeshed in the "system" (jail, parole etc.) For college and collge educated women this means that in the future about half of black woman will either have to date someone who is not black or who is significantly less educated. 4 scenarios have been devised, many college and college educated black women can either:
1. date infrequnetly, never marry, never have kids,
2. date sporadically, never marry, become a single mother,
3. date outside one's class, date more often, marry someone of lesser education and perhaps have children,
4. or date outside one's race, date more often and perhaps marry someone of a different race but similar education and have interracial kids.
Also, poorer, less educated black women face the same dearth of men, with a significant portion of men brought down by the war on drugs (and the ensuing sentences) and the loss over the past few decades of steady factory jobs that enabled a stable 2-parent middle class existence. As a result a growing majority of poor, uneducated, young black women are becoming single mothers.
Discuss, what do you think this means in the long run for the makeup of blacks in America, specifically blacks in higher education?
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