Yes,Gotti was a racist. As said Cnote he called Johnson half breed,Mark Reiter was the "fucking Jew" and Gotti was punched because called "ni**er" the black guy.Gotti's problem was that he liked to talk behind everyone's back. Johnson decided to cooperate because when went to prison in the early 1960s Carmine Fatico,promised,but didn't help his wife and two children financially.