:He was a creature of his times and his background, so he likely shared widespread prejudices. I have seen phonograph records which today only the KuKluxKlan would like: there were "humor" records in which white comedians would make jokes in dialect, with stereotypical imagined actions and words of minorities. I can think of whole series of such records reinforcing the attitudes of whites in the US and elsewhere towards Blacks and Jews. He certainly was not outside the 19th and early 20th century mainstream in maintaining such stereotypes, as they were common in newspapers, novels, and plays.