19.) Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

Here and there, in small rooms where a candle makes big shadows, there is good talk. It is attractive, specially if you are white; but it is also sad, bleak, and terrible. It may not be a bad thing to be a Sophiatown Villon; but it is tragic if you can never be anything else.

In this excerpt from Gordimer's "1959: What is Apartheid?" Gordimer suggests that _____.
A.) apartheid has encouraged the flourishing of African cultures and traditions
B.) it is useless for Africans to overturn apartheid when their lives are so full already
C.) it is wrong for Africans to live in worse conditions than white people under apartheid
D.) apartheid has helped Africans to maintain their cultural superiority over white people