{"id":2434,"date":"2006-05-16T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2006-05-16T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T19:14:00","slug":"not-his-finest-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/05\/16\/15\/14\/not-his-finest-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Not His Finest Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw a reference to a rather detestable HP Lovecraft<\/a> poem, On the Creation of Niggers<\/span>, but unfortunately the only extant verses I could find were slightly incorrect versions on Nazi sites like stormfront.org. I used Amazon’s “search inside the book<\/a>” to get this<\/a> from The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

When, long ago, the gods created Earth
\nIn Jove’s fair image Man was shap’d at birth.
\nThe beasts for lesser parts were next design’d;
\nYet were they too remote from humankind.
\nTo fill this gap, and join the rest to Man,
\nTh’ Olympian host conceiv’d a clever plan.
\nA beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
\nFill’d it with vice, and call’d the thing a NIGGER.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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