20 - Heart Of Darkness (with Bec Petraitis and Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall)
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The Racist Story of Africans
The N word is used quite a bit throughout the original text. There's no doubt that there was some horrible stuff going on in the Belgian Congo during this time inflicted upon them by the white Belgian people. But I don't have an answer because it's been debated about for over a hundred years. Joseph Conrad was there on a steamship, but then also he was probably working for an ivory company himself. So that's not a nice thing to do with enslaved people. It's like there were no great people in this book.
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