Let’s kill some myths real quick
Every couple months, I see the same two lies floating around:
1. “Black women out-earn Black men.”
2. “Black women are the most educated group in America.”
Both sound good on Twitter, but both fall apart when you actually do the math.
Earnings: No woman in any racial group out-earns their men overall. Period. The only time you’ll see “Black women earning more than Black men” is when people cherry-pick — like comparing women with degrees to men who didn’t finish school. That’s not proof, that’s spin.
Education: Black women are more likely to finish school than Black men per capita. But that doesn’t make them “the most educated group in America.” The actual leaders are Asian Americans in terms of bachelor’s and advanced degrees. White women still lead in raw numbers because population size matters.
And let’s keep it real… a lot of these degrees aren’t translating into money. That’s why Kevin Samuels’ “I’m a PhD” soundbite was so classic. Women would say it like it was a trump card, but it never changed the reality: your degree doesn’t automatically equal leverage in relationships or in the job market.
Bottom line:
- Black women don’t out-earn Black men.
- Black women aren’t the most educated group in America.
- And repeating those myths is just sowing division where none is needed.
Sometimes raw numbers tell the story better than per capita stats. Sometimes per capita shows what raw data hides. But either way? The narrative doesn’t hold.