Why Is It So Hard FOr Black Women To Get Married???

Piers Morgan Interviews Condoleezza Rice, Asks Why She is Not Married, Black Women Cringe
By Alexis Stodghill on Jan 21st 2011 4:16PM 

Condoleezza Rice, the first black woman to become a U.S. Secretary of State, was interviewed recently on the newly minted CNN show, 'Piers Morgan Tonight,' to be asked of all things: Why are you not married? That question no successful African American female can escape. The single, black (semi-successful) woman that I am couldn't help but shrink in insecurity as this ubiquitous puzzler was posed even to one of the most prominent black women alive. Why the embarrassment?

Yes, such questions make for great ratings. It's a question Piers Morgan might have asked any single V.I.P. Watching a woman who used to wield massive diplomatic and military power talk of cooking fried chicken was a hoot. But despite the innocence of the utterance, for black women everywhere that question is the articulation of a Greek tragedy-style family curse: An unsolvable source of suffering for black women that just keeps getting passed down. Piers may not have known that, but refering to it even obliquely is enough to make one's heart hurt. 

Recently, the media has made questioning professional black female singledom into a mind-numbing mantra. Why can't enough black women get married? Why can't successfulblack women get married? What will happen to all the successful single black women as they get older because they can't get married? It's one thing to ask these questions of the average professional black woman. It's another thing to transform even Condoleezza Rice in an object of pity with these words. Because that is what this line of reasoning does. And now all of America is partaking in the pity party that used to only take place in our sister cirlces, hair salons and the occasional work of sister-girl fiction. Now that everyone is in on it, black women can't even make being lonely together into a good time anymore.

Get It 2 Go!!!!!!!!!