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From: William Jordan via groups.io <whj=melanet.com@groups.io>
Date: Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [adamsmorgan] What Do YIMBYs and Donald Trump Have in Common?
I’m an amateur genealogist, in building my family tree and working to better understand the stories of my ancestors, I’ve found complex and extensive connections to DC going back to the 1860/70s.
In my genealogical journey, I’ve discovered as with my family, my ancestor’s lives generation after generation lives have been negatively impacted by some form of YIMBY-ism. YIMBY-ism built around Black family displacement and the I-know-it all paternalistic hubris of the political and bureaucratic elite.
Nadeau’s YIMBY policies rooted in the royal “my” and paternalism is not new to the battle for equity.
The attached November 21, 1854 article from the Evening Star features Ezekiel Cunningham my first cousin 3-times removed and DC SW shopkeeper describing 1950s version of YIMBY-ism as a “Passel of Joy and Sorrow”.
Not only are there many parallels between YIMBY-ism of the 1950s and 2020s including the rationalizations, but some of the same Black families which were marginalized and displaced from SW to make room for out of town developers are some of the same families being marginalized by Nadeau’s Ward 1 policies for similar interests.
Source file: https://tinyurl.com/bddn5wnw
So we can debate Nadeau’s NW YIMBY-ism and Trump, there is little doubt about Ward 1’s YIMBY-ism roots in S.W..
William
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From: whj@melanet.com
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2024 8:56pm
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Subject: Re: [adamsmorgan] What Do YIMBYs and Donald Trump Have in Common?
YIMBY-ism for the most part is nonsensical rebranding of government backed Gentrification which is a rehash of Urban Renewal/Negro Removal. In particular it’s designed to con mainly younger people who are seeking progressive solutions to community ills into supporting big capital via high rents and consumption. Comparing this YIMBY-ism con to Trump is just an attempt to wake us up a little.
Under the very approaches so called YIMBY’s are pushing for 1/2 of Ward 1’s Black population has been displaced since 2000 and the racial equity gap has increased, especially the Black-White one primarily as a result of government policy/corporate-corruption.
Many YIMBYs are likely good people, who have been conned or mislead by people like CM Nadeau who know YIMBY-ism doesn’t work as touted.
William