Well, honestly, I was like JJ. I didn’t care about much. I had no convictions, I am a follower and I followed my older brother and cleaved to my republican grandparents without question. At times I was miserable, but that grew more intense when I met the love of my life and despite what my grandmother thought, I married her. I caused an immediate strain that I know my big brother also felt and it was the beginning of the end of the ties we shared with our grandparents.
JJ and I are good friends because we are two of the same kind of people. We are from the same clan at heart, and thankfully we were found washed up, and set on a more righteous path. I won’t lie, my wife didn’t set me straight, I was a flirt. I was fast on the road of committing adultery. For while I told my wife she was making to much of my grandparents. I just didn’t want to deal with it. Which was the same way I felt about racial issues. I didn’t want to hear it, I couldn’t relate to minority issues and I was glad I wasn’t a minority. You see when you can honestly say you are glad you were born in white skin, hell yes we know black people are still treated horribly in this country. I’ve gone as far as saying if I woke up black I would commit suicide. I know I’m not strong enough to live in black skin so in a way it’s a compliment. Black people are strong people. They have a lot of shit to deal with and honestly, what they do, when bad, only affects a small amount of people. I saw my grandfather make decision that would hurt hundreds of people and he didn’t care. I saw him fire people before they reached the point of retiring, watched them walk away devastated. You know what? They were all white. The only thing that matters to our grandparents is money, nothing else. That is literally what they worship and money is a cold, heartless god.
I began to change the minute I met Mason and listened to her and Mark talk. I’m a better man, a better husband and finally ready to be a role model and start a family of my own. Wish us luck as we are working hard, if you want to call it work, to become pregnant.