{"id":192,"date":"2002-04-29T17:43:39","date_gmt":"2002-04-30T01:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=192"},"modified":"2004-10-19T16:56:16","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T00:56:16","slug":"race-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"race relations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quoth the Instapundit<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nWilliam Raspberry writes that there is a shortage of educated black men<\/a> and that as a result, successful black women aren’t getting married. This, he says, is a tragedy.<\/p>\n

And I suppose it is. But, you know, buried in Raspberry’s piece — and no doubt in the minds of the women he describes — is the assumption that black women should only marry black men. Isn’t that kind of, you know, racist?\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If the women in question are needlessly suffering on account of their own irrational moral judgements, isn’t that the very definition of tragedy?<\/p>\n

I don’t see a should<\/i> anywhere in Raspberry’s piece, though it is a bit disappointing that he never touches the question “so why aren’t they marrying non-Blacks?”. Nor does the women’s behavior (what about that of their White non-husbands?) necessarily imply a should<\/i>; I never eat apricots, but I don’t believe that people should<\/i> never eat apricots — though admittedly if a behavior approaches unanimity (does it?) it gets hard to say with a straight face that it’s merely personal preference.<\/p>\n

I’ve known far more women of pallor who married Black men than the reverse; why is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quoth the Instapundit: William Raspberry writes that there is a shortage of educated black men and that as a result, successful black women aren’t getting married. This, he says, is a tragedy. And I suppose it is. But, you know, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}