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You would think that a college professor would have more important things to do with his time, but apparently not. [/quote]

One would thing so.  However, for some college programs engaging via social media is part of how they maintain their ranking, power, and build their cache for higher positions.  For instance, in Kingman Park they have a local DC ANC advocate-UM Professor Coomber who regularly engages in promoting the pro-urbanist agenda.  Promoting the urbanist agenda regardless of the concerns of long term residents has been their primary focus.  Urbanists have a long history of dislocating Black populations in favor of more privileged white and  higher socio-economical populations.  For example, Professor Coomber recently identified themselves as a Capitol Hill parent even though they do not live in what has been traditionally considered Capitol Hill.  I guess it's similar to what happened in areas such as southwest DC when the freeway system came and destroyed primarily Black neighborhoods in the name of "progress" or when the urbanists "re-named" neighborhoods like "NoMa" that came to be known no longer by the neighborhood's historic non-urbanist name but a name that appeared to serve as a facilitator of a new vernacular in the interest of what appears to primarily maximize the profit of the privileged and push out historic communities.  Such privileged urbanist constructs push out historic Black neighborhoods in favor of primarily white socio-economically privileged constructs.  Unfortunately, as the recent census shows, it appears the pro-urbanist agenda advocated by Professor Coomber is more of a feature as opposed to a bug in our current system.  If historically Black neighborhoods such as Kingman Park are to survive, the negative externalities associated with the urbanist agenda must be mitigated.  Granted, with the influx of new, primarily privileged white, residents it's possible the movement that was, in part, started by college Professor Coomber may not be able to be stopped in Kingman Park.  Granted, similar to the historicity of Georgetown, I guess some parts of the city are okay with the erasure of Black history?[/quote]

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