Why pt 2

 I think alot about my childhood but I also think alot about the way that I came into existence.  As ironic as it was for a Jehovah's Witness to be disfellowshipped from their organization and hanging out at Arkansas State at just the right moment for him to meet my Baptist mother, it's just as ironic how much infidelity it took and when for me ( and I guess my siblings too ) just to be here.

I dont know all the stories about my great and great great grandparents that well but I know enough to be very grateful for them all.  Somewhere in the past slaves came from Nigeria and other tribes surely and mixed with Europeans and the ( already here ) indigenous people just enough to make the whitest 'black' man alive. Not even my kids are bright as me.  Well except the oldest......

That alone presented its own challenges of course.  Especially as I was raised in the South.  I could never hide.  I was always exposed lol...

Here's a little of what I know:

One of my paternal greats OWNED my maternal. He was unfaithful to his wife.

The child from their union would go on to become my grandfather.

Grandfather had a wife when he met my grandmother but the child from THEIR union would go on to become my beloved mother.  

I feel like my chances of being here were a little worse than 1 in 400,000,000,000,000......

I'm sure many of us would say that.

Dad's side was different.  I knew my great grandfather and mother when I was younger and also my grandmother's mother for a bit longer.  Of all my father's grandfather's kids, my grandfather was the ONE to become a Jehovah's Witness.  As my dad's younger brother put it, my grandfather chose JW over Methodist I believe.  What a difference it would have made.  If my father hadnt been disfellowshipped at the right time then I wouldnt be typing this blog.  I'd be in some other part of the multiverse...maybe....

Not a lot more to it than that.  Thats the gist of my origin story. 

 Infidelity and Religion are the recipe of my DNA.

God allowed what I see and so much I dont to be the cause of me being right here right now... 

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