A missionary has been sent to Africa to work with a small village.* About a year after his arrival, one of the young women of the village gives birth and it is clear that the child is half white/half black.* The head of the village goes to visit the missionary in order to get to the bottom of the situation.* The chief* asks if the missionary can explain why the child seems to have a father who is white.* The missionary asks the chief to follow him.* The two of them walk down a dirt road to where the village's sheep herd is grazing in a pasture.**
"Do you see that all of the sheep are white, except for that one over there, which is black?"
The chief becomes flustered, raises a hand and waives it about, saying "OK, OK.* I'l shut up about the baby if you promise to shut up about the sheep."
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