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Popup menu text color is not working, background color working fine

On my main app theme I have:
<item name="android:popupMenuStyle">#style/MyApp.PopupMenu</item>
<item name="android:textAppearanceLargePopupMenu">#style/MyTextAppearanceLargePopupMenu
</item>
<item name="android:textAppearanceSmallPopupMenu">#style/MyTextAppearanceSmallPopupMenu
</item>
And then I have
<style name="MyApp.PopupMenu" parent="Base.Widget.AppCompat.PopupMenu">
<item name="android:popupBackground">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#color/black</item>
<item name="android:textColorSecondary">#color/black</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#color/black</item>
<item name="android:background">#color/color_white</item>
<item name="overlapAnchor">true</item>
<item name="android:overlapAnchor">true</item>
<item name="android:textAppearanceLargePopupMenu">#style/MyTextAppearanceLargePopupMenu
</item>
<item name="android:textAppearanceSmallPopupMenu">#style/MyTextAppearanceSmallPopupMenu
</item>
</style>
<style name="MyTextAppearanceLargePopupMenu" parent="TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.PopupMenu.Large">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/black</item>
</style>
<style name="MyTextAppearanceSmallPopupMenu" parent="TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.PopupMenu.Small">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/black</item>
</style>
But my popup menu appears with a white background and white letters instead of black. I have tested this by changing the background and that works fine.
So what am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
Edit: Figured it out, my app theme has <item name="android:textColor">#color/primary_text</item> and that seems to override whatever I do on popup menu styles.

Here's an example:
<resources>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent</item>
<item name="popupMenuStyle">#style/PopupStyle</item>
<item name="textAppearanceLargePopupMenu">#style/PopupTextAppearanceLarge</item>
<item name="textAppearanceSmallPopupMenu">#style/PopupTextAppearanceSmall</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.AppBarOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#android:color/white</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.PopupOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="android:colorBackground">#ff00ff</item>
</style>
<style name="PopupStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Light.PopupMenu">
<item name="android:popupBackground">#ff00ff</item>
</style>
<style name="PopupTextAppearanceLarge" parent="TextAppearance.AppCompat.Light.Widget.PopupMenu.Large">
<item name="android:textColor">#ffff00</item>
</style>
<style name="PopupTextAppearanceSmall" parent="TextAppearance.AppCompat.Light.Widget.PopupMenu.Small">
<item name="android:textColor">#ffff00</item>
</style>
</resources>
Toolbar example:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay"
app:popupTheme="#style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay"/>

Its very late but the main reason is that the attribute android:textColor is applied to the popup menu which is defined in the main style (parent) and you can't control by defining your style for popup menu. Don't know the reason for this weird functionality but it as it is, its google .
So add <item name="android:textColor">#color/white</item> in the parent style.

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<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/status_bar</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/edittext_primary</item>
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<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
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<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#android:color/white</item>
<item name="actionMenuTextColor">#android:color/white</item>
<item name="android:actionModeBackground">#color/material_light_bg</item>
<item name="android:textColorSecondary">#android:color/white</item>
<item name="drawerArrowStyle">#style/WhiteDrawerIconStyle</item>
<item name="textAppearanceLargePopupMenu">#style/myPopupMenuTextAppearanceLarge</item>
<item name="android:textAppearanceLargePopupMenu">#style/myPopupMenuTextAppearanceLarge</item>
<item name="textAppearanceSmallPopupMenu">#style/myPopupMenuTextAppearanceSmall</item>
<item name="android:textAppearanceSmallPopupMenu">#style/myPopupMenuTextAppearanceSmall</item>
<item name="android:actionModeStyle">#style/LStyled.ActionMode</item>
<item name="popupMenuStyle">#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light</item>
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toolbar.xml
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
style="#style/MyToolbarStyle"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center_vertical">
Theme / Style
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<item name="android:maxHeight">#dimen/abc_action_bar_default_height_material</item>
<item name="android:background">#color/primary</item>
<item name="popupTheme">#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light</item>
<item name="titleTextAppearance">#style/Theme.Toolbar.Title</item>
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This is my styles.xml:
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<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>
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<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#ff077fb1</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/app_color</item>
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<item name="android:textAppearanceSmallPopupMenu">#style/myPopupMenuTextAppearanceSmall</item>
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<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent</item>
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<item name="colorControlActivated">#color/colorAccent</item>
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<item name="windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>
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xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#color/primary"
app:popupTheme="#style/customToolbar"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" >
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>