Racial Bias Quotes
At the time, American racism was rampant, and about 150 Blacks were lynched each year with no punishment for the murderers. The heavyweight boxing champion of the world was a major hero, and the thought of a Black possibly winning the title was unthinkable.
Patton was leading troops in north Africa in world war two. They came into much contact with the Arabs and Patton thought that his officers should know more about them. He wrote this memo.
View of the human rights situation in the Middle East.
One problem the Attorney General and the President faced was with the FBI. Director J. Edgar Hoover. He was a racist himself and he detested Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights demonstrators. He didn’t want his agents protecting the demonstrators who he regarded as Communists and rabble rousers . Further, his agents in the South were in tight with the local law enforcement officers who were allowing the white crowds to beat the demonstrators, and they didn’t want to upset their “colleagues” by arresting people who the local authorities didn’t want arrested. Only when one of them attacked an FBI agent observing the demonstration did the FBI make an arrest. That produced the dilemma the Attorney General described.