The Intercontinental Championship doesn't need Daniel Bryan or John Cena to give it legitimacy. I think Bad News Barrett, like Dolph Ziggler before him has been a great Champion and the Intercontinental Championship has had the legitimacy that the WWE World Heavyweight Championship hasn't had since Wrestlemania last year. If anything the guys in the WWE World Heavyweight Championship title picture need the Intercontinental Championships legitimacy more then it needs them.
This has nothing to do with Triple H but if you're going to compare them though you can say that they were arguably the top two heels of the Attitude Era. Triple H has not pushed Kurt Angle down. He works for TNA because he has chosen to.
The Undertaker should take on Kane in his last match. It doesn't need the streak, it doesn't need a belt, the feud won't feel forced and there is no inevitability about the finish. It just makes sense.
I don't think a veteran is necessary. Mark Henry, was just an example I threw out there but I could make an argument for any black wrestler on the roster as to why they could be against the group. This is clearly a stable put together because of the race of the wrestlers but just because they are of the same race doesn't mean they have to all be on the same page. There are a range of ideologies in the black power movement and the angle would be better for it if that was expressed rather then just have a senseless team of us versus them.
It might just be me but I don't understand everyones desire to see every black wrestler currently on the roster join this stable. That seems way too simplistic to me. It would be more interesting to see some black wrestlers be for them, against them and some who are indifferent to them if and when they try to be recruited. Someone like Mark Henry, for example, could say that he has nothing to gain in joining the group being that he has made it as a World Champion on his own.
I think you're having problems separating Paul Levesque, the real life executive vice president of WWE and Triple H, the heel character from The Authority you see on TV every week.
According to the previews for the new season of Total Divas, he has. New year, new goals.