Racism & Disgrace

As discuss in the article, there are distinctions and interpretations of the quotes from the book which can be racist. I personally think that this book is racist. From the examples given in the article, it is easy to negatively interpret the book where Coetzee may be a racist. The African National Congress was one of the many who supports these accusations. Their interpretation of the sentence in the book "implying that in the new regime whites would "lose their cards, their weapons, their property, their rights, their dignity," while "the white women will have to sleep with barbaric black men."" I think this is true when view by some people because of the use of the word barbaric to describe black men. But it is also true that Coetzee is negatively describing the blacks while showing sympathy to the victimized whites. Even though he may have done the same thing to Melanie, who race is not mentioned where the dominant race able sexually harasses a member of the inferior group which was white being dominant in the area which David lives. But he does not describe himself or Byron who tries to escape a scandal as barbaric as he did with the blacks. Although when David seems to have a good opinion of Perus saying "Petrus seems a good man". But this character was later made to seem like he was similar or worse then a barbarian when he was depicted as harboring a rapist. I think that this book is racist because of the way I interpreted most of the book, which basically brand all blacks as barbarians or worse. Even if a similar situation, such as the case of him and Melanie, he does not describe himself or any whites with that type of crude language.