Well, I don't know if her point is incompatible with successful, mainstream black artists
You could go back to Cole Porter, through Little Richard etc. and the big Motown acts as examples of very successful black pop artist, but then I think David Bowie makes the point really well in 1983 about how racist MTV was:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZGiVzIr8Qg
I'd say Bowie and Lizzo would be making the same argument,
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Wed 30 Nov 2022, 9:57,
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