joe doesn't seem long for this world. bob hoffman was a known racist and won't crown a black or hispanic as mr america till chris dickerson. he also won't put them on the cover of his mags MD and S&H. two noteables hoffman kept down were harold poole who was actually part native american and sergio oliva.
Meh, Hoffman and Weider are sisters under the skin, so to speak.
Hoffman was a "Whiteman's Burden" type of fella. If you were in his stable, he was good to you. He helped John Terry, a black lifter out when he got out of prison, defended John Davis from racists during his lifting career, etc... Gave a lot of those old lifters jobs, etc... Without him weightlifting would've come close to dying off.
The Weider/Hoffman thing boils down to money, Weider cut him out of a lot of money when he expanded. No-one likes that.