Single black female seeking ... a response!

by generaldecay | October 9, 2009 at 11:09 pm

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With Obama in office, Nobel Peace Prize in hand, America is said to be "post-racial" -- but apparently no one's told that to single men.

This is an interesting piece after the announcement yesterday that President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The argument that the US (and hence the West?) has entered a post-racial period does not seem to apply everywhere.

[The] dating website OkCupid just released statistics breaking down the racial makeup of matches on the site.

And what do these statistics reveal about male interaction with black females?

"Men don’t write black women back. Or rather, they write them back far less often than they should," reports the site's blog. "Essentially every race -- including other blacks -- singles them out for the cold shoulder." Despite replying to more messages -- OkCupid's way of expressing interest in another profile on the site -- black women get 25 percent fewer responses than women of any other race.

The explanation for these differences may not be racist, of course, although the salon author believes that race has a lot to do with it. It requires further investigation, of course, for this is an attitudinal and behavioural trend that cannot be wholly gleaned from a few statistics. But there is certainly food for thought here.

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