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Originally Posted by Acajack
I don't think there is anyone in the world outside the US who grew up consuming American popular culture who would believe that LA is only 7.8% black.
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yes, for a good long while now, white/black LA has been played-up and latino/asian LA has been downplayed in hollywood/pop culture.
that said, while the percentage of blacks in LA is quite low compared to big cities in the eastern half of the nation, LA is so damn big that in aggregate numbers, it still has the 10th largest black community in the US in raw numbers with 950K.
the 9 UAs ahead of LA on that measure: NYC, Atlanta, chicago, DC, miami, philly, dallas, houston, and detroit (all of them east of I-35).