Stanford professor: Marry outside your race
BAY AREA - Banks -- who is black, and married to a black woman -- says that interracial marriages make sense in California, where only 6.2 percent of the population identifies as of African descent...
From NBC Bay Area
“Don’t marry down. Marry out,” is the message of Ralph Richard Banks, a professor at Stanford Law School. He’s the author of “Is Marriage for White People?”, a new book which examines reasons why black women are less likely to marry than other women of different races, even as black women ascend to the top rungs of American corporate, educational and social life, according to a report in the San Jose Mercury News.
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Banks — who is black, and married to a black woman — says that interracial marriages make sense in California, where only 6.2 percent of the population identifies as of African descent. He also has some harsh words for other black men — presumably not ones like himself, who holds degrees from Stanford and Harvard Law School. “It all coalesces around this,” explains Banks, ready to drop the racial bombshell, “whether black women will continue to be held hostage to the failings of black men.”
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