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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- 2: Never tasted anything like you before
- 3: How about I create a mess and then solve the mess and then I'll be a hero
- 4: Anything you crave, a certain curse
- 5: None of us are traitors till we are
- 6: Swimming through these long-forgotten lands
- 7: Sifting through centuries for moments of your own
- 8: The bones of houses show in the summertime
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