• MoralisticCommunist [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    DuBois' idea of a Talented Tenth never even referred to millionaires or the rich, as he wrote in the 1940s "my own panacea of an earlier day was a flight of class from mass through the development of the Talented Tenth; but the power of this aristocracy of talent was to lie in its knowledge and character, not in its wealth."