When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove’s fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th’Olympian host conceiv’d a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.
—
On the Creation of Niggers by H.P. Lovecraft
(via prodigouscardiologist)
see…it’s hard not to forget that, though talented he was, he was also a racist fuck.
