"Black women are tired, really tired of dealing with the immaturity of Black Men," says C. Davis of LA. Her friend Julie echoes her sentiment: "I have given my man less than a year to get his act together, or, well he's out."
Ultimatums like this are becoming more and more commonplace in relationships between black men and black women. Davis says that many of the problems black women are complaining about--laziness, no focus, infidelity, not taking care of their children, no financial planning-- stems from the fact that
"a whole generation of black boys have been so coddled and babied by their mothers, that they have grown into men who are still acting like boys."As a result, many black women are now dating white men.
"Mom always told me, 'Don't you ever bring a white man home,"' recalled Toinetta Jones of , echoing an edict issued by many Southern, black mothers.
But at 37, the Alexandria divorcee has shifted to dating "anyone who asks me out," regardless of race.
"I don't sit around dreaming about the perfect black man I'm going to marry," Jones said.
Read more on this at the CNN story.