Racism in Teatro Grottesco stories?
Hello, I am asking this question in very good faith so please do not react offensively. I am simply trying to understand the book better. In the first story, Purity, Candy is introduced as a black woman and is then described as doing these really gross things while living in a destroyed disgusting home. It becomes even worse when it says she's unable to understand the concept of Europe... Whatever that means. There is much about her character that seems incredibly racist and stereotypical and everything and I feel uncomfortable ignoring it. The story is otherwise very intelligent though and I'm having a hard time believing it's actually just using racist stereotypes in such a straightforward manner. It understands how social constructs like religion, nationalism, class, and gender impact the world and are ultimately "impure delusions", so how could it be so blind to race? It seems unlikely but I still just can't understand how it could be not racist. No one talks about that aspect anywhere I look! It's very disappointing about the book because otherwise it would be kind of a perfect work for me.
I'm also considering how the people who are fans of his work do not seem to be people who are or would be racist
There is also My Case for Retributive Action where Ribello is described as "rachitic", I originally thought this meant "ratchet" (obviously a very racially charged term) but after looking it up it is a way of describing someone who has rickets? Is he using it in this way? Isn't rickets specifically a thing children get? I looked it up and it said when adults get something like rickets it's called something else. What does it mean when Ribello is described as that?
Please help people I don't know :[