The Great Visit

A white man wants to take the trip of a lifetime, and decides on a trip to Africa. He is in a go nowhere job, with no friends or family, and is feeling down. He quits his job and decides to travel to a remote area, far from civilization. He does not like the touristy vibe that some places give off, as he does not like to socialize with the general population, so he ventures deep into the African wilderness and stumbles onto a very friendly African tribe.

The Tribe welcomes him, but are a little cautious as they have never seen a human with as light of skin as he has.

The man falls in love with the tribe, and ends up teaching them about different cultures, the English language, etc.

The man also becomes quite good friends with the tribe chief, as he and the chief have much more in common than they both would have ever imagined.

A year passes, and the chief is getting suspicious of the white mans plans for being out in the wilderness for so long, and starts to question his antics.

The chiefs wife gets pregnant.

The chief thinks nothing of it, as he loves his wife and sleeps with her regularly, until nine months later when the baby is born, and has the same pale skin as this strange white man.

The chief becomes furious, as he thinks the white man had slept with his wife, and asks to speak with him in private far from the rest of the tribe. He takes him to the edge of their village near a sheep pasture, where it is peaceful, yet quiet.

The chief brings up his concern for his child being white, and explains to him that it isn't possible for the child to be white and be his son, as the man is the first human they have ever seen to be white. The chief has many children, all as dark as he is.

Furious, the chief threatens to banish the man, as he is convinced the man had a child with his wife, but offers the man a chance for an explanation as to why the child isn't his.

The white man thinks for a minute, and looks out onto the sheep pasture. He notices that all the sheep are white, except one of them, who is black.

The man uses this example of the sheep, claiming that in nature, there is always a "black sheep", and sometimes, no matter how all the others look, one comes out looking different than the rest. There wasn't a black sheep to impregnate a white sheep, to make it black, it just happens sometimes.

The chief listens to this explanation, and makes his decision.

The chief says, "I won't tell the others about the baby, if you keep your mouth shut about the sheep"