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: And in the end they might even thank me with a garden in my name
- 2: And me? Well, I'm just the narrator
- 3: And how it gets you home safe and then messes the house up
- 4: Now where did you get that from, John le Carré?
- 5: This is what I get for being civilized
- 6: I'd marry her this minute if she only would agree
- 7: Open up your mouth, but the melody is broken
- 8: Is your heart hiding from your fire?
- 9: Everybody knows the world's gone wrong
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