All White Atlanta

the purpose of this blog is to bring attention to images promoting Atlanta developments and events that ignore people of color

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Too many white faces at the Atlanta real estate awards.

These are photos of winners at the 2019 Best in Atlanta Real Estate Awards hosted by Atlanta Business Chronicle.

If you look very closely, you might notice a similarity between all these people who won awards for real estate deals.

Real estate deals that took place in a majority-Black city. One that's sometimes referred to as the Black Mecca.

The 2020 edition of the ceremony is coming up in March. We hope to see some people of color holding awards. An all-white winner's circle is always a red flag in Atlanta, but with awareness of gentrification being so high, it feels extra gross to see it associated with real estate deals.

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The purpose of this blog is to bring attention to images promoting Atlanta developments and events that ignore people of color

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Here’s a rendering of a planned “Restaurant Row” along the Rail Trail path in Chamblee. Look at all the white people!  WTF. This is Chamblee, GA where stats on the city's own website show that less than 50 percent of the population is white. Diversity is one of its best qualities. Images matter.

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This ad for the upcoming Quarry Yards development, next to the Bankhead MARTA Station, is no more icky in its appeal to young, mostly-white wealth than other ads for new developments are (not to excuse those other ads -- they suck too, obviously).

But given the location of Quarry Yards, embedded in historically black neighborhoods, this is particularly tone deaf in a truly, deeply insulting way that should have never made it past the editing stage.  We get to see white people crowded around food trucks for the Food Truck Park that will be here, and also a group of what appears to be nothing-but-white-folks doing yoga in a park.  Big h/t to King Williams on the video find. 

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From the Atlanta Beltline document about Bill Kennedy Way: a proposal for a wooden deck that white people can enjoy.

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Congratulations, Cornhole ATL, you’re all white!

The purpose of this blog is to bring attention to images promoting Atlanta developments and events that ignore people of color

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This ad, right on this page. Watch out for that POC at your door!

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Seen at Moreland and Hardee, the site of this new development. Even the dog is white.

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I’m just gonna leave this out here

Nothing says MLK District like these white people. There is a person of color (one) in one of the slides (one).

Celebration of Land

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Congratulations, Underground Atlanta... You’re All White!

Haven’t been to Underground Atlanta because all the black people make you uncomfortable? No worries. In their renderings, WRS (the developers) let us know just how white it can become!

To be fair, there is a little cluster of black girls tucked away to the fringe of the image.

The purpose of this blog is to bring attention to images promoting Atlanta developments and events that ignore people of color

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All white folks and dogs apparently will be living here (except a glimpse of a black woman--maybe--in a shot of the neighborhood).

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Listen to a discussion about All White Atlanta on WABE:

A Closer Look, Feb. 25, 2016, 90.1 FM

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Congratulations Paint Wars... you’re all white!

Our paint is many colors, but not our skin tones!

The purpose of this blog is to bring attention to images promoting Atlanta developments and events that ignore people of color

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Congrats Hilton Canopy... you’re all white!

The canopies keep the sun (and moonlight) of the melanin deprived in the rendering.

https://www.bisnow.com/atlanta/news/hotel/what-new-hilton-brand-is-headed-downtown-55761

The purpose of this blog is to bring attention to images promoting Atlanta developments and events that ignore people of color

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Congrats, GM Doraville Redevelopment...You’re All White!

This is a rendering from the redevelopment planned for the former GM assembly plant in Doraville, just north of the City of Atlanta in Dekalb County. Dekalb’s population is only 33% white. Oops.

The purpose of this blog is to bring attention to images promoting Atlanta developments and events that ignore people of color

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Congrats Oyster Fest... you’re all white!

For more whiteness on the half shell, go here.

the purpose of this blog is to bring attention to images promoting Atlanta developments and events that ignore people of color

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Congrats Freedom Townhomes... you’re all white!

“Where brown and white only meet on the buildings facade”

See more white people here.

the purpose of this blog is to bring attention to images promoting Atlanta developments and events that ignore people of color

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Congrats Ft. McPherson... you’re all white!

Way to go MILRA and Ft. Mac LCI study lead Sizemore group! Despite being in SW Atlanta, you managed to use over 95% white people in your images! It’s a boring read, but you can check out what people there are (and they’re all white) here: 

the purpose of this blog is to bring attention to images promoting Atlanta developments and events that ignore people of color