"Black Ice"

The need to assimilate and accommodate for white people to fit in is definitely a double edged sword.  In some regard, one opts to "sell out", and others stand their ground.  When gauging Audre Lorde's quote, "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." Is there anyway to break down institutions that have been in place your years?  I say a Booker T. Washington-ish approach is okay because at the end of the day, some progress is still progress.