The concept of uplift suasion came up at a dinner date Kendi was having with his future wife, Sadiqa, in which they found themselves harboring this belief system and then trying to pick it apart. Kendi felt the burden of being perfect in front of the White and Black races: he was never allowed to be his imperfect self. One of the most attractive failed strategies is “uplift suasion”: according to this strategy, the Black person must always act in the superior way and must not bring the race down. Repetitive failures endure and exact a toll. Focusing on healing symptoms and not changing policies does not work. One cannot think of race as a social construct, nor as a forward-march, nor as simply rooted in ignorance and hate rather than in self-interest. In this chapter, Kendi explores why racist societies endure and why antiracist strategies fail.
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