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The Prison Angle to the Marriageable Mate Dilemma

By Richard Whitmire — April 12, 2010 1 min read
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The Economist does a great job laying out the dilemma facing black women generated by incarceration rates, but oddly never considers the education angle. For middle class black women, that’s a bigger driver. In cities such as Washington, college educated black women outnumber similarly educated black men by three to one.

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