This is actually a blog post by author Nnedi Okorafor. As she writes:
On Sunday, a friend of mine wanted to see my World Fantasy Award statuette. When he saw it, he was taken aback. He looked like he’d seen an ugly ghost.
“That’s a bust of LOVECRAFT!” he said.
“Yeah, so?” I said. I had a bad feeling.
Then he showed me a nice little poem that Mr. Lovecraft wrote about our people:
On the Creation of Niggers (1912)
by H. P. Lovecraft
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.
The rest of her post can be found here:
http://nnedi.blogspot.com/2011/12/lovecrafts-racism-world-fantasy-award.html
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