Another reason for Frankie's comment is FFC/Puzo's making a parallel with the Rosato brothers and the real-life Gallo brothers. Crazy Joe Gallo got close to blacks and Hispanics while serving a long sentence for extortion, and used them after he was released. The other Rosato/Gallo parallels have been much-discussed in this forum.
That was the point I was going to make but of course I'm 4 days late....lol. I agree in that the Rosato's were using Blacks for far more things just like Gallo was rumored to do when he took out Colombo (if that is true)
