Somehow this is news: Avondale Estates to change the verbiage on park signs, because they seem too mean
Avondale Estates is an interesting part of town. They’re technically within Metro Atlanta proper, because they’re within I-285. But they’re also in Decatur, which is often known as practically something of a liberal hippie commune, so absorbed in their own want to not be associated with Atlanta, that they almost take a sadistic pride in how difficult it is to get in and out of their little segment of town and how much the traffic sucks.
Needless to say, exclusion and exclusivity is a concept that isn’t lost to Decatur on a regular basis, so it’s amusing to me that there’s controversy over a sign that promotes even more exclusion and exclusivity within an individual neighborhood within Decatur.
Frankly, I don’t see anything wrong with a park dictating rules that the park is meant for those who actually live in the community. I’d be peeved if people who don’t live in the community trying to reap the benefits of a nice park that my tax dollars are going to, especially if they’re all disrespectful, uncivilized and uncouth and shit.
The fact that there’s any outcry at all about this is kind of indicative to just how big of pussies society has become. Oh noes, people who don’t contribute to the community aren’t technically allowed to be here! This is the kind of complaint that goes in line with terminology such as “safe spaces,” and the increasing power and intensity bullying is being given.
But what set me off about this was the AJC’s injected narrative that somehow, this is potentially racist:
Commissioners now seem to agree that part of the language on those signs are archaic at best, and at worst unwelcome and perhaps racially charged.
Racially charged? What, in the wording of “of the residents of the city of Avondale Estates” has absolutely anything to do with the color of anyone’s skin? It’s no secret that north of Memorial Drive, Decatur becomes whiter than the Kentucky Derby, and within Decatur, Avondale Estates turns into The North Face store, but it’s a no-win situation to make an accusatory hypothesis about racism with such a poorly injected narrative.
Either Avondale Estates acknowledges the flagrant racial divide between them, Decatur and the rest of Atlanta, by addressing the language on the sign, or they continue to look like exclusive snobs by ignoring the situation and having written proof of just how much they love exclusivity. Seeing as how the sign is being addressed by the grandson of the founder of Avondale Estates, it looks like the former. But I do like this little dig:
But I also don’t find the language off-putting.
It’s basically saying “I’ll address the sign because people are bitching about it, but I really don’t see what all the fuss is actually about.”
The bottom line is that this whole story is stupid, pointless, and like so much of local government menial tasks, a waste of time and taxpayer dollars addressing something that doesn’t actually need to be addressed.
