Selling Out Does Not Always Pay
4 min readJul 30, 2019
I’ve seen it time and time again at the community level. Leaders pushing a community- driven agenda are often betrayed by members of their inner circle, who were promised “great things” for themselves in exchange for undermining community progress. In some cases, the people who sell out do go on to make names for themselves; often taking credit for work they didn’t do, and conveniently forgetting to acknowledge the very people they…