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It was written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and written in the early part of the 20th century, around 1912. At that time -- 90% of the fictional novels were racist. [There's a reason I can't stand the Victorian Period or the Early 20th Century Fiction -- it's insanely racist and sexist. Also the writing style is flowery and feels like the mental equivalent of quicksand.) Some of the writers are worse than others. Virigina Woolfe was racist, although it wasn't quite as apparent in her writing as in others of the period, and various other major writers of that time period. (I don't know why this surprises people -- think of the time period? Text books up until roughly the 1970s, white-washed history. People back then were taught racism. South Pacific actually has a great song about it. Have you seen any of the early Disney films? Fantasia (before they fixed it?), Song of the South (although that wasn't as bad as people think) Lady and the Tramp, etc? Walt Disney was a Nazi sympathizer and a racist. They had to clean up his cartoons for release in the 1980s and 90s.)

Mark Twain got in trouble for satirizing and commenting racism in the late 1800s and his books were banned by various "white Allegedly Christian" groups up until roughly the 1970s for the relationship between a black man and a white boy. Now they are banned by the opposite side -- which is hilarious.

Think about this for a minute..Gone with the Wind by Margret Mitchell was a best-selling novel in 1936, and it's even more racist. (They have the Klu Klux Klan in it -- and Scarlett, the heroine is aiding them.) The movie is actually toned down a bit from the book.

I've avoided anything by Edgar Rice Burroughs, my mother warned me off of them -- because her sister read them and she figured out how racist they were. Although I hear the Mars stuff isn't that bad. Actually, I avoid a lot of stuff from that time period.