Yep! ONLY is the operative word.
My brother’s girlfriend is from Holland and at dinner a few weeks ago we were talking about culture, race and demographics etc. in the USA. When I asked her what she thought the percentage of the population blacks were, she said, ‘30 or 40%, right?’ When I told her the real figure, she replied, ‘but they are all over tv and the radio, it must be higher than only 12%.’
My conclusion: Stupid white people are to blame for this erroneous perception. Glomming on to all that is ‘black’ or ‘hip hop’ has caused this country’s downward spiral more than any other ill. If not, blacks would either ‘act white’ and be successful like Asians....or be forgetable, in the background, boosting crime rates, but not much else.
With the Latino population nearing 20% or more, we may see a huge change in the ‘culture’ of American TV and entertainment rather soon.................