Why is white / black marriages still so low in USA?

Question

Almost all of the married couples I've seen are non-black with non-black. Is this due to social reasons? Non-blacks don't wanna marry descendants of recent ex-slaves???

Answer 1

Well, there's a total of approximately 401,000 marriages between white and black couples. That's not realy alot, though. I really don't know why it is that some blacks don't marry the decendants of the people who enslaved their accestors, but I know that I don't mind dating a white person at all. My boyfriend is white, and our relationships is fine. Many black women  don't date white men because of what happened between white men and black women during slavery, though.

Answer 2

Is that a problem?  I think people marry who they want to marry.  If that happens to be someone of their own ethnicity, there is nothing wrong with that.  

Answer 3

I think it is where you are living. I live in Ohio and there are severl mixed families, There are 2 on my street of 6.

Answer 4

Interracial relationships on the whole are pretty rare. This goes for any group of people.  

Answer 5

my neighbors are black femal / white male couple there married with kids ..there cute!

Answer 6

We live in country that has free choices, if some select a mate of a different race, that is their choice, while others may prefer their own race for marriage   and consider the others be they yellow or black or red,  their brothers and sisters, in Christ.  

Answer 7

Let people marry who they want!

Answer 8

wtf.....i dont think it has anything to do with slavery. Plus i dont kno where you are or what your watching but a lot of couples are interracial here. And in 70 percent of interracial couples the man is black.

Answer 9

maybe the pressure of there parents

Answer 10

Maybe because they marry who they want to marry?  

Answer 11

No it is on the rise but with black men and white women. I wish the numbers for black women and white men would rise

Answer 12

Well Black men marry white women at low rates, but they do date them at much higher rates. The marriages between the two are increasing as well.

Black women are slowly gaining interest in white men at higher numbers, but many still aren't attracted to them in general. I tend to come across black women who aren't attracted to black men are more interested in other male's of color before they look at white men, but that's me personally I'm sure someone has came across the opposite.

Plus most people rather date inside their own race. It's only natural, they were both built for one another.