Garvey condemned those who promoted and benefited from this inequitable system, including W. E. B. Du Bois and those who worked with Du Bois at the NAACP. Believing that the system fed into white-supremacist ideals, Garvey viewed the lighter-skinned Blacks with disdain, a fact that wasn’t lost on Du Bois. In fact, Du Bois criticized Garvey, calling him “a little, fat black man; ugly, but with intelligent eyes and a big head.” Garvey shot back, calling Du Bois “a little Dutch, a little French, a little Negro…a mulatto…a monstrosity.”
