![]() Since Gen-E-Flex was an international company based somewhere in Europe that was to be expected. The electronic voice on the other line, listed off a dozen languages and asked him to select the language that he wanted to speak with the operator in. A check on the clock on the wall, indicated it had been twenty-three minutes, since he had dialed the eight-hundred number. He felt like he had been on hold for ever. He had heard of rare cases of people getting back a DNA test with a result that included some Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal DNA, was that what it was saying? If that was true, how could he have such a high percentages of these evolutionary dead ends in this day and age? Jones pulled out his cell phone and called the number. There was something at the bottom that gave 800 number to call if you had questions about the results. Red it said, Nonhuman…13%, Roy blinked and shook his head, what the hell did that mean? Was this some kind of Joke? Were these not the real results? Had Jerry in IT somehow “hacked the system”, and sent him fake results? At least he had something a little cool to share with the gang at work. Well wasn’t that interesting, Roy thought. The next two lines read Sub-Saharan Africa…6%, and Native American (Cherokee)…4%. Roy wasn’t sure that he knew for sure where the Caucasus Mountain Area was, but in a way it made sense, didn’t scientists once believe that all white people originated from the Caucasus? ![]() Damned right of the first night, as Grampa Jonesy used to say.Ĭaucasus Mountain Area…8%. Welsh…18% that would be Jones side of the family.Įnglish…10%. Well that was constant with what his mom’s mother had said about her line being Dutch-Irish. He skipped past the intro paragraph and read the results. He ripped off the top off the oversized envelope and pulled out the single sheet of paper. Roy’s initial interest was because some of his work buddies had got it done and they could not stop talking about it, during the two week wait for his results, he had become extremely curious about what the test would reveal. He had chosen this particular company because it had the best, quality of website compared to cost for the test ratio.įor a mere eighty bucks and a saliva swab, Gen-E-Flex promised to send back a detailed report of where his ancestors came from. ![]() He had taken the DNA test because several people at work had already done it and the idea of seeing where his ancestors came from intrigued him. The results on his DNA test, from Gen-E-Flex. Among the ads for stores he would never visit, cars he would never own, and food that never looked like the photos of them when you went to the restaurant, was the one piece of mail that he had been waiting over two weeks for. Roy Jones tossed the handful of junk mail on to his kitchen table. What if the lab doesn’t have our best interests, or at least has alternative motives?įinally I love it when a bigot gets a result that he is at least partially the race that he has looked down. Since most of us don’t have the knowledge to run the tests ourselves, we need to completely trust those who preform them for us. Until they share the secrets unlocked in out DNA a scientist or more likely a lab tech, (as DCotu dear friend Obie Wan said “From a certain point of view.”) knows more about us than we know ourselves. The idea that we can find out all about our past from a single drop of blood is both awesome and terrifying. That is both self-aggrandizing and scary. Like I said I deplore his racism, but the idea that a person is at least partially something nonhuman is not completely off the table, for me for a horror story.ĭeep inside us there is this this fear that we are not like all the other 7 billion people on the planet. Though his feelings about races appear in many stories, in two stories the concept that a white male from a good family had within him, the blood of an eldritch horror, is the central theme, The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family. Not funny in a ‘ha-ha’ kind of way, but funny in “gee isn’t it pathetic that at one time most Americans thought like this” this kind way. ![]() Lovecraft, but I will not defend his racism.
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