The issue is that one has no control over what gets modeled by those looking at "role models".
Many of the best role models are the kind of folks who large systems or structures refuse to teach about en mass because these role models are uniquely subversive. Malcolm X vs Martin Luther King Jr being the classic example of this.
Doesn’t mean he can’t be a role model. Just don’t emulate all behaviour exactly from any person.
People have flaws. Every single one of them.