On the Creation of N*ggers

When, long ago, the Gods created Earth, In Jove’s fair image Man was shap’d at birth. The beasts for lesser parts were next design’d; Yet were they too remote from humankind. To fill this gap, and join the rest to man, Th’Olympian host conceiv’d a clever plan. A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure, Fill’d it with vice, and call’d the thing a N*GGER.

H.P.LOVECRAFT.

😬😬😬

My favorite way of explaining how racist he was is that his contemporaries over a century ago in the “Birth of a Nation” period of racism were like “Dude - tone down the racism.”

Of light. But also black people too, but that’s not what I meant!

• Maine

see also: Stephen King

And his cat’s name freaks out all of us

Orchestral miscegenation probably also freaked him out

A kender with two different instruments AND two chairs, you say? 🤔