Stanford Law Professor Ralph Richard Banks Encourages Black Women to Explore Interracial Relationships

Stanford University law professor Ralph Richard Banks' just published book, "Is Marriage for White People?" encourages black women to cross race lines more to find a husband.

From the Toronto Sun: Richard Banks' just published book, "Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone," is sure to spark controversy through its suggestion that black women would benefit both themselves and the black race if they crossed class lines less and race lines more.

In his just-published book, Stanford University law professor Ralph Richard Banks says black women are more than three times as likely as white women never to marry. And when they do marry, they are more likely than any other group of women to marry a man who is less educated or earns less than they do. Banks also says that African-Americans have become the most unmarried people in the US.  

"We are the least likely to marry and the most likely to divorce; we maintain fewer committed and enduring relationships than any other group," he writes. "Not since slavery have black men and women been as unpartnered as we are now. Although the African-American marriage decline is especially pronounced among the poor, it is apparent as well among the affluent: doctors, lawyers, corporate professionals."  

The book also confronts some uncomfortable truths about relationships between black men and women. Banks says he has discovered that many black women have become bitter because they face a relationship market with too few black men who are stable and employed. "More than 1 in 10 black men in their 20s or early 30s is behind bars and a black man's lifetime likelihood of losing his freedom is 1 in 4," he writes. "And however much they understand the social circumstances that lead black men to criminal activity, most black women, like women of all races, don't want an ex-convict as a husband." Source: Toronto Sun

Personally, I see nothing wrong with interracial relationships. If the person you fall in love with is white or Asian, then go for it and stop settling for a black man just because he's black. Love knows no color. At least, it shouldn't.