Why did Hollywood fall in love with Halle Berry and not Stacey Dash?

If I had to guess, it would be because Halle was known for doing more "black films"...acted great in every one of them, but still was typecasted to being in urban film's...she was black but light skinned, and in the racist eyes of Hollywood, the safe black woman to eventually cast in mainstream blockbuster roles. Where as Stacey just outright tried to audition for the roles that the casting directors had already made up their mind were for a white woman.... without really putting in the work that halle had been putting in. Flash forward to 2003 and Halle hit it big with Monster's Ball and BOOM...it catapulted her career to A-list status where her race didn't matter any longer.

Considering what a right-wing nutter Stacey Dash became, isn't it a relief that Halle became the bigger star?

Besides, apart from Clueless, what was Dash famous for?

Halle was a Miss America runner-up who went on to appear in Jungle Fever, Boomerang, The Flintstones and Losing Isaiah, all before Clueless was released. And fwiw, I think Halle is far sexier (not that we should even be pitting Black women against one another to begin with), and has displayed more acting range (I staunchly disagree with whoever said her acting ability was 'unimpressive'). Plus, I don't feel that Dionne was very representative of the experiences of most Black women either in the 90s, or even now, whereas Halle played a range of roles, and her character in Boomerang likely resonated with more Black women, because she was a sweet, self-made, middle-class career woman rather than a spoiled little rich girl.