Uplift suasion made Black elites take too much responsibility for racial problems.

Evidence

Ironically, the actual “key to much in the Negro world” may have been the very opposite of Glazer’s formulation—the Negro may have been taking too much responsibility for the Negro’s problems, and therefore not doing enough to force the “white world” to end the discriminatory sources of the problems. Elite Blacks, raised on the strategy of uplift suasion and its racist conviction that every Negro represented the race—and therefore that the behavior of every single Black person was partially (or totally) responsible for racist ideas—had long policed each other. They had also policed the masses and the media portrayals of Blacks in their efforts to ensure that every single Black person presented herself or himself admirably before White Americans. They operated on the assumption that every single action before White America either confirmed or defied stereotypes, either helped or harmed the Negro race. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 951

Categorization

• QUESTION: Kendi’s claim that the cure existed inside Black communities’ own shame — that self-policing diverted energy from dismantling discrimination — could be tested: did uplift-suasion movements ever measurably reduce white racist ideas?
• XREF: Echoes the reader’s core test scheme: the individual-self-improvement logic of assimilationism colonized even the antiracist Black elite.