Racism vs. Social Commentary

I believe Conrad portrays Africans as beast like and animalistic and stuff because it adds more to the social commentary in this book. i think he meant for it to make you see them as different or other than normal because that is what he believes how other people at that time saw them. in the book, he is not being shy about the whole social commentary, you can definately see some of the points he is trying to make. he is not trying to hide it, he is letting everyone know how he sees things. i can see how people think it is racist, but i think he really does it to make his point stronger and more in your face. i think if the book seems as if it racist, then Conrad did his job and did what he wanted to do because he pointed out the problem and made people more aware of the fact of what was going on. i think people only see it as racist because they dont know the background of why he wrote the book or they dont know that the point he was making was toward social commentary