It's not just male blacks that aren't successful, it's female blacks to. Its really most of the black community. Blacks aren't successful because most don't have the chance to become successful. Most live in urban, violent and cracked infested areas with no daddy and live in a single parent household with a lot of bothers and sisters, to many for the mom to support. They don't have a chance to grow up in a nice neighborhood where there is no crime, no drugs and have successful black people to look up to. The blacks in the urban communities look up to the drug deals, because there making 2000-5000 a day. They look up to the gangsters because that's whats portrayed on the TV. That if you are black you have to act a certain way. You have to be a gangster, dress in name brand stuff hip-hop clothes and have to act a certain way. Black kids see this in magazines, TV and everyday life. And if you don't act or dress this way u are different and not cool. In urban areas its not cool to get an education. And those who are given a chance to succeed wont even take it. There not really a difference from a black male living in the ghetto, from a black kid living in the suburbs. It different if they grew up in the suburbs and all they know is suburban life. They don't know how it is any where else. SO they will keep that suburban heritage and use it every where they go. They will be a good neighbor, they will do well in school, and they will grow up to be something. But a child that grew up in the ghetto and then put in suburban neighborhood will bring there ghetto heritage to the urban life. And not try to go with the flow of acting dressing and talking nice. But the reason most black kids aren't succeeding is because they are not trying. They"ll say I am good at a certain sport and ride out that dream to become a professional athlete or a rapper. And they will stick with this logic that you don't need an education to become an athlete or a rapper.