In case of blacks and minorities in general, success is seen as done by way of hurculean efforts despite the efforts of white “oppressors” and result in undue and exaggerated celebration and celebrity.
That’s not what I see.
I see Americans in general fawning over celebrities no matter their race and these bring lionized even though they probably shouldn’t be (kinda like that one Cosby quote about him bring man of the year, IIRC, that it should be called a great guy as far as we know award).
Black businessmen and professionals who’ve unglamorously clawed, innovated and led on their way to the top receive no such automatic benefit. The less their success seems to do with their blackness the less likely their celebrityhood. Especially if they don’t go along with the myths of race.
In this respect I see Obama’s idiotic statement “You didn’t build that” to be particularly pertinent. Yes, he meant it of successful people in general but it may reflect an onlooker’s attitude about black people who didn’t need their blackness to succeed and if so it is even more reprehensible.
Celebrities and politicians who gain their wealth or power because of the group, by contrast, are those who seem to get the most leeway.