http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_large_African-American_populations

By percentage, L.A. is low, BUT by total number, we have the 8th most Blacks within one Metro area. And it is definitely segregated.

I think a lot of it is a class issue. When I do mention these things to folks who move, the response is something like, "but they're all in bad areas!" and "that's all in the hood, nobody wants to live there!" Some folks in my HBCU circles don't realize I'm a native, and they'll say BAD things about natives. One dude was just like "oh yeah, Black people from here? They're fuckin HOOD, usually ghetto and burnt out." And a girl I met two weeks ago from Opalocka told me she has zero desire to even visit the Black areas here.