I don't know --- but you do find them in the military. Sometimes I think we focus too much on the lower 25% but forget to look at how many black youths are getting themselves ahead and offering up their lives. I guess because the military base is here, we don't see the problems in some places with the inner cities --- in the west it's different.
Kids who can visualize a future for themselves move away from their inner city roots as soon as possible, whether through higher ed or joining the military. There is a constant sedimentation to the bottom, of the most helpless and unable to succeed kids, who remain in the most terrible neighborhoods of our cities.
There is a large black middle class in suburban neighborhoods where they are just plain mainstream Americans.
Black children are the chattel of the NEA