nope...."talented tenth" doesn't mean light skinned...people have to stop perpetuating this myth.
Garvey tried to look/critique AfroAmerica through the Jamaican 3 tier caste system lens and no one (in the USA) was having it.
Garvey was confused because of the mental scars Jamaica's brownings left on him
every West Indian leader that knew him in the USA pretty much confirmed this
The funny thing about Garvey hating mixed people was that while he was preaching a form of "true negroism," he actually wasn't practicing what he was preaching:
His wife was part of the brown/mulatto class in Jamaica her words/thoughts on how Garvey saw her beauty:
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according to his wife, before he married her, he wanted to this Afram woman below :
......she looked like a quadroon compared to his wife; Garvey clearly liked the light skinns even while claiming to hate them