Today I learned about the depopulation of Malaga Island in 1912. The short course: after ordinarily existing for half a century on a small island off the coast of Maine, a mixed-race fishing community was demonized as physically and mentally degenerate, its families eventually evicted en masse by order of the state governor, dispersed into the mainland population or forcibly institutionalized. All traces of habitation were razed right down to emptying the island's cemetery. Innsmouth, no fish people needed. No one has built or lived on the island since. I am glad to read that some of the descendants are now reuniting. Otherwise it is simply more evidence that white supremacy is why we can't have nice things.
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- 1: A lie you told to the maze I'm in
- 2: But somehow the vital connection is made
- 3: Many arms around the mast as your ship starts cracking
- 4: Wrote a scholar from the island that they kept from me
- 5: I do some of my best work in the British Museum
- 6: I made a deal with the devil, but I never got paid
- 7: How do you love? How do you solve the etiquette?
- 8: And I'm sorry that I forgot that binders don't go in the dryer
- 9: Trying my best to arrive
- 10: And where the arrow leads, you never know
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