It used to be a man in his mid 20s, even black, made enough to get married. At least afford a starter apartment in the hood (urban area)/ black part of town (country / south), nowadays even white boys can't make enough to even keep a girlfriend. I read an article several years ago that more men in their 20s are either staying in their parents home in their 20s or have moved back in that at anytime. This is all races.
America's own greed has effed up a couple generations in able to get married and live fairly decently. Every single successful society on earth for 1000s of years was built on the traditional family unit. No exceptions. When that started failing, their society failed. The best and most famous example are the Romans. The emperors were so gay at one point they had public wives and there was a good chance that it was someone else's kid when she had a son and he didn't give a f*ck either.
There are many aspects of why America has a low birthrate and that includes us. The mainstream media won't touch it but blacks have a lower than replacement rate of births as well. Its slightly higher than the white rate but the media focuses on whites for obvious reasons.
A black man in his 20s is no where capable of being able to get married traditionally on average. The jobs aren't there. Even if he went to college. Unless he majored and worked in certain professional fields (STEM, Law, etc) he's going to face very mediocre jobs and a huge student loan debt. Its why we, in part, we see young sisters with established guys late 30s, 40s. On a sidenote, the lack of a father and daddy complex is one of a few other reasons, but I digress.
White America is trying to figure out how it can get young white men paid and interested in marrying again WITHOUT also doing the same for us. Its tricky. They start having high minimum wage, free college, etc, it also helps us and we (and Latinos) will usually have more kids than whites do.
We need a national black conversation on how to help ourselves. Talk about pushing the trades (plumbing, carpentry, electrician, mechanics) and tech (cyber security, cloud engineering, programming) and any other in demand profession that pays above the national wage and enough to get married.
We gotta simultaneously have brothers go for the bag, and being on code personally and sisters stop choosing Pookie and Ray Ray and being wifey material.
