Racist?!?!?!?

After reading “Heart of Darkness,” by Conrad. I can’t help but to agree with Achebe’s theory that Conrad is a bloody racist. When he’s referring a white person he seems to talk about them like there a god, “He was amazing, and had a penholder behind his ear.” This is talking about an accountant that he meet. He was amazed with how good he looked despite the limited resources to do so. It’s funny how he thought everything about this man was so great, including the penholder behind his ear. But than when he encounters a black man his description is completely opposite, “Strings of dusty niggers with splay feet arrived and departed.” He also than goes on to describe a black man that he sees, “While I stood horror- struck, one of these creatures rose to his hands and knees, and went off on all-fours towards the river to drink. He doesn’t even describe him as a person, he degrades him to a creature. Conrad is an extraordinary writer, and you almost look over the racist remarks, due to the way he writes. But he defiantly does degrade African Americans. He makes them out to be less than human, and seems as though he can’t understand their ways like when he describes the young black boy with a white thing tied around his, he couldn’t understand why it was tied there, he thought he had to be for some unknown reason, it couldn’t be that he just liked it. He makes white people out to be the grandest of grand. He, without question, is a racist.