Joy Reid is a great example of a black person fighting tirelessly to uphold institutions which do not uphold people like her.
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we fight harder to ensure the good working of institutions that hurt us than the people who are helped by those institutions do.
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and it is a kind of uplift suasion... with a difference. The defender of the institution will gain some degree of power within it.
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so our evaluation cannot end at the surface absurdity of the tactic---it must lean on: how much power did you gain, and how did you use it?
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