Even beyond race and ethnicity, showing you are on board with the elites and willing to mouth anything that curries favour with them, is the overarching consideration, more the darkness of skin shade ... Nimarata is just another money-grabbing sellout, spouting whatever will get her higher up the pecking order. A disgrace in other words ! Look at Ambassador Linda Thomson-Greenfield - she is dark-skinned but that has not impeded her rise as she too smiled at all the right times, and has been smiling ever since, even while enabling the slaughter of civilians by the mighty zionashkenzais, when she was the sole vote that prevented a ceasefire in late October.

Skin tone and religion are definitely factors, but the over-riding one is showing you will comply with Massa.