Chinua Achebe, father of modern African literature, has long argued that
> Joseph Conrad was a racist. Caryl Phillips, an admirer of both writers,
> disagrees.
>
That seems like kind of a silly debate. How many European aristocrats of the Victorian era would we not consider somehow racist today?
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."