Well, Madame Bethune's work lives on. She is, indeed, among the pantheon of Great African Americans.
The thing is, white people can look any ole way, and still get the red carpet.
Blacks, meanwhile, have been so degraded under Western colonialism that only those in proximity to whiteness, get easy props.
Now, during segregation, we had relatively tons of dark-skinned businessmen doing their thing, and still do. Frankly, the correct propagation of our narrative can literally cleanup this pre-judice.
Now, look at Golda Meir. Couch her in terms like snow monkey, bent nose culture appropriator, Khazar, etc. over a few generations, including mitigating anything that's constructive, and you get the same results.
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