Amongst contemporary writers in America, Philip Roth perhaps rates as one of the most gifted and controversial figures. Roth’s The Human Stain has invoked a number of studies and inspired a Hollywood adaptation of his book. The writer’s treatment of human affairs encompasses a number of social and cultural issues, which can be discerned from a reading of the book. Nine years have passed since the publication of The Human Stain and the book is well on its way to being declared a modern American epic. This essay focuses specifically on Roth’s treatment of human frailty with special emphasis on its manifestation of exclusivism and dissimilar treatment of the minorities in America. Roth uses the “first person voice of the writer Nathan Zuckerman to tell the story of Coleman Silk, a black man who passes for a Jew (Phelan and Rabinowitz 216)”, a professor of classics and dean of faculty at a fictitious Athena College. The story is set in 1990s New England society where cultural conflict and the Clinton-Lewinsky affair loomed as the centerpiece of the decade. Roth deftly uses the contemporary themes of the period to explore the hypocrisy of American society. Race issues figure prominently in Roth’s canvas which he adroitly tells through a series of flashbacks, unraveling Coleman Silk’s life who is in the initial pages accused of racism for calling two of his African American students as ‘spooks’ (Roth 6) for their absence from his classes. The term, ‘spooks’ is deemed racist enough for Silk to be castigated by the society and the college that ultimately leads him to resign from the college. After the death of his wife, Silk engages in an affair with a 34 year old janitor Faunia Farley, who has a Vietnam scarred war veteran for a husband named Les Farley. The flashback style slowly reveals a darker truth regarding Coleman Silk, his real identity. It turns out that Silk for over five decades had passed off as a white Jew when he actually was a black man. The irony of the situation, wherein, a black man stands accused of racism against other black men comes out loud and clear in Roth’s treatment of relativity of social values. The charge of racism, led by an ambitious academic, Delphine Roux who uses Silk’s affair with Farley as a lynchpin to beat him with, reminds the readers of the efforts of Kenneth Starr whose zeal to get the President impeached shows his relative value system. The ‘dog-eat-dog’ cu throat competition of Middle Class America is starkly portrayed by Delphine Roux whose single-minded denouncement of Coleman Silk point to interests other than the noble defense of poor black men. By implication, Roth is accusing the academicians, the intellectuals and progressives who claim to be enlightened and egalitarian but actually carry deep seated prejudices and stereotypes that self perpetuate throughout the fabric of American society. By portraying that Silk chooses to hide his identity as a black man, Roth attempts to relay a social message that racism is alive and well in America. Roth’s postulate is that despite civil rights and affirmative action, the Blacks of America continue to be marginalized and feel victimized. This feeling of victimizati