Hey Sis! Sorry for the delay in responding -- but LIFE JUST KEEPS HAPPENING!
As a member of the "Divine 9," pledging Delta Sigma Theta in 1978 at Talladega College in AL (who would've NEVER strutted for this woman), I DO get why so many of them do. They see her as Sydney or Cicely, but she's NEITHER -- and she says so, as she talks about her Indian heritage over being Black and American.
BELIEVE what the folk in CA say about her -- it's all true. Dr. Google will lead you to her iniquities. You're right, just like the Changeling, she hurts us as much, if not more than White folk.