Not that anyone except for me and like two people who are following this actually care, but the City of South Fulton AKA “Renaissance” is having their new city’s name contested, protested and put back onto the chopping block by of all people, a 16-year old.
Long story short, to the surprise of nobody who lives there or had lived there, the local government can’t even do something as traditionally democratic as including all involved parties to a vote, and allowed a segment of the City of South Fulton to decide on the name of ALL of the City of South Fulton, which ended up being “Renaissance.” On behalf of a lot of people who had no involvement in the naming of the city, this segment of people went ahead and declared Renaissance to be the new name anyway.
Naturally, whether it’s the fact that people object to the questionable practices in which the name was decided upon, the fact that they simply don’t like the name “Renaissance,” or perhaps both, the whole thing is turned controversial, and in like a week or so, there’s going to be yet another meeting or town hall or whatever gathering of people necessary in order to iron out the city’s name, among other bullshit.
However, leading the charge amongst the detractors of the name of Renaissance is but a 16-year old, who has a problem with how the name came to fruition. Irrelevant is whether or not she actually likes the name or not, but for what it symbolizes, it’s safe to say that regardless, the name has become symbolic of injustice and an unfair bureaucratic process.
But of course, a teenager is successful in cockblocking what the people who tried to express lane Renaissance through. The people doing it clearly aren’t as smart as they think they are, and if you play fast and loose with the rules, the chances of getting caught and forced to let circumstances catch back up are pretty high.
Now I don’t actually think anything is going to happen with whatever re-vote or arguments the local governments of South Fulton conduct, and by the time they adjourn, it will still probably remain the city of Renaissance, but it is funny and as surprising as discovering water is wet that this happened in the first place. Local government is already a putrid and ironic joke to begin with, but taking one staffed with corrupt, inept and lazy talking heads means even the most simple layup of tasks remains as difficult as Left 4 Dead on Realism mode.
And hopefully, the whole name of the city issue doesn’t linger on too much longer, because it’s only been like a year or so since South Fulton attained cityhood, and it’s literally taken this long just to come up with a name for the fucking place. Meanwhile, police coverage is as confusing to the people as it is to the actual cops themselves, leading to regions that apparently have zero police coverage. Some, like this police chief (paywall, but limited free articles) have clearly seen the writing on the wall, and have decided to retire as opposed to being present as the shit continues to fling towards the slowly oscillating fan.
But who cares about stuff like police coverage or infrastructure, when there’s a name that needs to be established??
