http://articles.latimes.com/1989-12-05/news/mn-198_1_h-l-mencken
"The previously secret diary of writer and social critic H. L. Mencken discloses virulent anti-Semitism, racism and pro-Nazi leanings, shocking even the sympathetic Mencken scholar who edited it."
On the subject of Jews, Mencken wrote in December, 1943, that the Maryland Club had decided against admitting any more Jewish members after the only one on its rolls died. "There is no other Jew in Baltimore who seems suitable," he said.
Of blacks, he wrote in September, 1943, that " . . . it is impossible to talk anything resembling discretion or judgment to a colored woman. They are all essentially child-like, and even hard experience does not teach them anything."
Mencken's attitude toward blacks "was a curious mingling of total egalitarianism . . . and patronizing superiority," Fecher wrote.
But the diary discloses Mencken's "deeply ingrained conviction that black people were by their very nature inferior to white," Fecher wrote