By Joy L. Hightower | April 25, 2016
In ’09, Linsey Davis, a Ebony female correspondent for the ABC News, published an element article for Nightline. She had one concern: “What makes successful Ebony women the least likely than just about any other race or gender to marry?” Her story went viral, sparking a nationwide debate. Inside the 12 months, social media marketing, newsrooms, self-help books, Black television shows and movies had been ablaze with commentary that interrogated the trend that is increasing of hitched, middle-class Ebony women. The conclusions for this debate had been evasive at best, mostly muddled by various views about the conflicting relationship desires of Black females and Black males. However the debate made a very important factor clear: the controversy in regards to the decreasing prices of Black wedding is a middle-class problem, and, more especially, a nagging issue for Black females. Middle-class Ebony males only enter as a specter of Ebony women’s singleness; their voices are mainly muted into the conversation.
This opinion piece challenges the gendered news depiction by foregrounding the ignored perspectives of middle-class Ebony guys that are drowned out because of the hysteria that surrounds professional Ebony women’s singleness.1 We argue that whenever middle-class men enter the debate, they are doing a great deal within the way that is same their lower-class brethren: their failure to marry Ebony ladies. Continue reading “ADVICE: Where Are the Brothas? How the Continued Erasure of Ebony Men’s Voices in the wedding concern Perpetuates the Ebony Male Deficit”
