Atlanta's Brand

[FlyiMetro]

Originally Posted by rcsteiner

In many parts of the country, the only exposure people have to black people are TV shows and other media outlets. It's hard to develop real knowledge when there is no sizable non-immigrant black population in the local area. Not an excuse, just citing personal experience.

I grew up in a Twin Cities suburb (Minnetonka) in the 60's and 70's, and I don't think I saw more than a few dozen black folks until I got to college. Even these days, in the Twin Cities, most of the blacks you'll run into outside of the City of Minneapolis or St. Paul are Somali immigrants.

I have never believed that black people were "negative", but I also tend to think in terms of individuals, not arbitrary genetic or ethnic groups. If the members of an individual family can be totally different in terms of behavior, beliefs, etc., then how can someone legitimately generalize such characteristics across an entire loosely-related group of people like the US black population? And yet it seems many do. That shows very poor judgement, IMO.

This is why I always say Atlanta needs a little bit more of what is the majority here. When people think of Atlanta, they dont think of anything but the same thing.

[FlyiMetro]

Originally Posted by midtown mile girl

Back to the topic of branding Atlanta, maybe something about our neighborhoods. We are a city of neighborhoods that all have thier own personalities.

All cities are a city of neighborhoods.