He Had A Problem With Other Races
Hoover was born and bred in Washington, D.C. and was publicly a “paternalistic white nativist.” Privately, he didn’t have good things to say about black people. He frequently disregarded issues that plagued the African-American community and often said their problems were not in the Bureau’s jurisdiction.
Hoover’s agents concentrated their attention much more on investigating black militants than on members of the Ku Klux Klan. Hoover was reportedly overheard saying in front of a Justice Department official: “I’m not going to send the FBI in every time some [expletive] woman says she’s been raped.”
