Some whites like to point out the existence of one black general and say equality exists in the military. Unfortunately that's not true. Equality may exist if the proportion of blacks in power to whites in power is close to the proportion of blacks to whites in the general population. But equality does not exist just because there is one black in 100 success cases. The same applies to movies.
Equality is still far away.
In the Middle Ages, the Mongol court in China had liaisons within the various ethnic communities. Chinese, Jews, Arabs, Persians and Turks were encouraged to talk to the Mongols but NOT to each other. This was how the Mongol ruling class consolidated its power. They kept the different subject races fighting each other over privileges so that the Chinese, Jews, Arabs, Persians and Turks would not unite and turn on the Mongols. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Europeans on the American continent seethed to see Negroes intermarrying with Native Americans.