RFK Sr was pivotal in the Civil Rights Movement, enforcing integration in universities and championing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He also advocated for Mexican workers and Indigenous people. A purveyor of health misinformation, his bigoted son ate roadkill and snorted heroin off public toilets.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."