Ok, he has this reputation for being super racist, even for the time he was alive. Yeah, for the TIME he was alive, but not for WHERE he was alive. He was around a bunch of rich snobby ultra-racists. he was brought up hating that which was not like him. He also was super reclusive and had awful night terrors. He disliked any other country, except his fascination with the Ancient egyptians. But, what they never say,m is that as he grew as a writer, and as a person, he began to speak to more people and realise how wrong and hateful he had been. As he grew, he apologized for how hateful he was, his best friend may have been gay, and he married a Jewish woman. Yeah, he WAS racist, but he grew out of it.