> Poor white kids, for example, have this bad habit of out-scoring black children from the highest income brackets on the SATs

Wow, I didn't believe this until I looked it up.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2999198

> In 1997, black students from families with incomes between $80,000 and $100,000 did in fact score lower on the SAT test than did students from white families with income less than $10,000.