An Image of Africa

The piece Achebe wrote in response to the racism in Conrad's piece was interested. After reading the book then reading the article a reader can definitely see where the racism does exist in the novel. The question is Conrad racist?

I guess we wouldn't know that since none of us was around during his time. A person can argue that Conrad was racist, he constantly referred to the Africans a niggers and other names except by their tribe name or by their god given name. Can a person argue that this was the time that Conrad was born and raised in. It was time that Africans and African American wasn't even consider human so giving them a humane name was out of the question. If Conrad was living today in 2008, would he write a book that called Africans or African Americans nigger. Different time and different attitudes.

Let's take a child for instance. If a child from birth all they knew was violence and did not value education, working, and being upstanding citizen. They though the only way they could get things was by stealing. Do you fault the child or the environment they were raised in?

Conrad lived in a racist society and he wrote on his experiences. I am sort of neutral on this article. I can clearly see where Achebe is coming from and see all the points in the article. Is Conrad racist or is it the world he was living in?