It’s not that white folks are less screwed up than we are. It’s that they have far more chances to get it right. White people have more access to marriage and partnership because they have more access to absolutely everything else: jobs, housing, safety, and wealth. In my small town, white girls started getting married right out of college. By the time I came home for the ten-year reunion, more of my white classmates were married than not. For my Black women classmates, the situation was exactly the opposite. In the ensuing years, many of these same white girls have gotten divorced.
