Black Single Men Shortage, Part 1 | Folks (1986)

[@JayWerx]

I guess the I don’t need a man mentality has been around for a long long time lol

[@chasenchikn321]

PREACH !!!

[@vanaphill2454]

I think that sentence has been shortened. Mine is: "I don't need a man who isn't a provider. I don't need a man who cheats. I don't need a man who is cheap. I think women need to be more specific when they say they "don't need a man".

[@Slow-Rolling]

@@vanaphill2454 … so why are they having babies with those men and turn around and complain???

[@GoddessBlueYozakura7]

Well clearly the video shows they just weren't there.

[@TayDays1128]

ever since the 70s and it kept gaining steam with each decade and generation. Now nobody has a man and all the women are miserable.

[@bishopmediatvl.l.c.517]

What I’d like to see if how these women are living today. They had their jobs to live for…I wonder if that’s still the case or are they totally alone or married now.

[@ericcurrence8477]

Watching this 36 years later and the conversation has not changed. Perhaps it's time for black women to look at their role in the "problem".

[@williamstiggersws]

When was this broadcast? The gap has gotten greater. I'd like to know what these women are saying now.

[@LPBTV]

1986

[@therealkpeworldwide]

Now at 60-70 let’s see.

[@mscherbeare]

The scary thing is it is much worst today.

[@Illalcap]

Shortage of black men? Or did they wait too late and now their former options are no longer interested.

[@kelliejones752]

One of the ladies said she had a marriage that didn't work out. Waited too long? Did you not hear the tall guy say he was like a rat and needed many holes? Did you also not hear the boys on the college campus all saying that they like to date older women? Who goes to college and only date women 25-34 with all of those young girls there the same age as them? Somebody that not serious and who only wants to play games that's who. The lot of you have been derelict for a long time and nothing has changed. Absolutely embarrassing, sad and pathetic. You can deflect and have selective hearing all you like; people of the world sees you😎

[@cvzdez]

White women marry at all ages this is a false narrative. The honest truth us these men just don't want to marry blk women. Many black men don't thing a negroid featured women deserve financial comfortable Liya or joy. They are "acting white" or "too boogie"

[@Illalcap]

@@cvzdez what you said sounds like a narrative that you have made up. There is not monolith of black men who don't want black women. If you are not getting a man interested in marriage it is probably because the drawbacks of marriage with most women, especially modern day BW, far outweigh the benefits... usually after some reflection upon a woman's thought process, mindset, level of cooperation and up bringing a man will realize that most women don't have any benefit to him at all. Modern BW make it easy for BM to come to this conclusion because they have no shame and actually BRAG about how useless they will be to a man.

[@harlemnights4381]

They always say men want to manipulate younger women lol not true at all !!Them walls be hitting hard don’t they.

[@vanaphill2454]

yes older men want younger women to manipulate them.

[@cvzdez]

They do. Not everyone man can deal with a mentally equal women

[@atumhotep833]

2022......how did that work strong and independent ladies?

[@TheOracle11111]

I own a C Corp. I have a mortgage, drive a 2020 audi and currently paying on a trip to Bali for my birthday next year. I just had Cajun shrimp and grits yesterday from a restaurant I drove an hour to get to. I'm sleeping in today because no clients booked, so when I get up I'll be hitting the gym so I can look fine af while I flex on you weak mfs. 🤪 ah ha😏 #FNF

[@PopLife-hb3ks]

Probably well for the women who stuck with it. They didn’t have to constantly worry about their husband bringing home std’s, side babies, side chicks, financial problems, physical violence, etc.

[@NicknickG]

@@PopLife-hb3ks What crazy life do you live? I feel sorry for you (Mentality or circumstance).

[@PopLife-hb3ks]

@@NicknickG My life is good. My life is calm, peaceful, and drama free. I’m in a good relationship with someone I trust. I have good friends.

[@TayDays1128]

@@PopLife-hb3ks this delusion has kept you and your peers miserable and unhappy. I wonder how you feel & think when you pass by a good married couple.

[@smokiana226]

So distracted by the visuals. Shape up technology has come a very long way 💯

[@freddymogul]

There's definitely no shortage or lack of quality men for women to make baby's out of wedlock with. The single mother rates don't equal what they are saying.

[@cvzdez]

Actually single mother rates have decreased for black women and I will add men do lie and trick women all the time, you know that. Men also remove condoms without you knowing. Men can be very trechorous and conniving

[@PhDiva02]

only low quality men make babies out of wedlock. So the single mother rate shows that there are plenty of black men lacking in qulaity.

[@nangaeboko6710]

As we enter 2024, it’s good that BM have been challenging a lot of these viewpoints that BW have about BM.

[@patriarchnation2703]

Wonder where they at now?

[@vanaphill2454]

No doubt happy about their decision.

[@quixgofar]

@@vanaphill2454 - Somehow, I don't believe that's the case. You chicks never want to face reality.

[@therealkpeworldwide]

All of this has been debunked. Black women are ENROLLED at a higher rate. Not graduating at a higher rate. Career keeps me busy. Home (aka another man’s child) effects me. Mature? Wait til retirement or layoff. Career and children and education. Wow. I’m set in my ways. Yes way of being overweight.

[@ahmanyahbenyahawahdah5415]

Wow

[@fabbeyonddadancer]

I’m saying the same thing this trope has been push for a long time by gynocentric media