Saturday
August 30th, 2025

@ 5:00pm PST / 8pm EST

Join Mumia Obsidian Ali for the "Do Black Men Benefit From Relationships?: A Cost/Benefit Analysis" webinar.

A recent podcast conversation among New York University's Stern School of Business professors Scott Galloway and Jonathan Haidt, joined by men and boys' researcher Richard Reeves, discussed 21st dating and courting norms - where all three were united in a consensus that men should pay upfront and do so with a smile, given all of the bountiful benefits they receive from women - they live longer, with a higher quality of life; they make more money and hold more assets; and they have more and better sex, too. Given the risks that women take to enter relationships, have sex, etc. - and the documented lesser returns they gain from it - it only makes sense that men return to the 1950s, if only briefly, to pay for everything in appreciation for a woman giving him the time of day. Of course, there is one little problem with what the "Anti-Manosphere" proposes: It assumes that everyone in the room is WHITE. While it may indeed be true that White men stand to gain immensely from the whole mating exercise, from first date to "I do", the evidence strongly suggests that making such a strident assumption for Black men is a shaky proposition - if not outright suspect. Indeed, the evidence proves that Black men have a lower quality of life, die sooner and even have less sex(!) than their White counterparts. In this webinar, I don't ask whether Black men should pay for first dates, or all of them - but whether: Is what they're paying for, worth it?