A visionary and organisational genius, Garvey capitalised on the dissatisfaction of the post war negroe and on the problems of being black in a white-dominated world. He told his spellbound audiences that racial prejudice was so deeply ingrained in western civilization that it was absolutely futile to appeal to the sense of justice and high -sounding democratic principles proclaimed by white people. Garvey denounced the black leadership for its assimilationist cultural tendencies. Furthermore, in an attempt to liberate blacks from the cobwebs of inferiority, he exalted the nobility and purity of the black race and denounced any form of interracial amalgamation.