User blog comment:Mikemacdee/Best of Lovecraft (and Other Thoughts)/@comment-30354437-20171012160145/@comment-28266772-20171013090913

Lovecraft was overwhelmingly racist for his time and today's. He ran a newsletter that espoused white supremacy, alienated his own friends and family with his despicable views and wrote frequently about the evils of interracial marriages. For posterity's sake, here's a link to a poem he wrote titled 'On the Creation of Niggers'.

Here is a collection of various quotes from his letters.

And here's a taster of HPL's own views taken from a letter:

''Mr. Isaacson’s views on race prejudice, as outlined in his Minor Key, are too subjective to be impartial. He has perhaps resented the more or less open aversion to the children of Isreal which has ever pervaded Christendom, yet a man of his perspicuity should be able to distinguish this illiberal feeling, a religious and social animosity of one white race toward another white and equally intellectual race, from the natural and scientifically just sentiment which keeps the African black from contaminating the Caucasian population of the United States. 'The negro is fundamentally the biological inferior of all White and even Mongolian races, and the Northern people must occasionally be reminded of the danger which they incur in admitting him too freely to the privileges of society and government. '''

Again and again this misconception comes up. HPL was not 'normal for his time' nor was he merely 'repulsed by ugliness'. Here you can read his own wife's disturbed response to HPL's views. When she challenged him, reminding him of her own Jewish heritage, he told her "she no longer belonged to those mongrels". And here you will find a contemporary response to Lovecraft's amateur journal which fervently attacks his racist views.

I adore Lovecraft's work. I really do. But the man was racist. 100% and in no-way excusable racist. He was a white-supremacist who was against all forms of racial mixing and believed the Aryan form to be the supreme creation of God. He wasn't quiet about it. He wrote about it vigorously. He toned it down briefly while married to his wife but those feelings rose once more after her departure.

Also Mike MacDee is correct in identifying that Lovecraft had mixed feelings towards various ethnically-white races. He was particularly put-off by Welsh and Irish ancestry which was funny because he later found out his own great-grandmother was Welsh, a fact that is often partially attributed to his writing of The Shadow over Innsmouth.