Ce Jay Hale Research Paper

I, Cee Jay Hale was born to Tracee Hale and Carlton Greene Sr., who met through a mutual friend. After dating for a short time they were married by May of 1999. They later divorced in 2011. Both of them are natives of Cleveland, Ohio. My mother is a product of Leola and John Hale who’ve have been married for 52 years and been together for 56 years! My grandmother Leola was born October 1, 1941 and is from Cleveland as well while my grandfather John was born March 12, 1936 in Salem, Alabama. Leola’s parents are William and Margery Burks. William was from Mount Rose, Arkansas and Margery of McDonald, Georgia. Now, I know people can meet almost anywhere from all over the world and my grandparents from my father’s side of the family are a great representation of just that. My …show more content…
The sad part about it all is that I really can’t speak on my father’s side of the family that much because he hasn’t been in my life for over 15 years. I have no relationship with him whatsoever because I gave him a number a chances to be in my life and he never took advantage of that opportunity. Although, I would have liked for him to see me grow up and became the young man I am today he has shown me on numerous occasions that he didn’t see potential in me or my other seven siblings he’d abandoned, some of them I still have yet to meet. I don’t think anyone will ever feel my pain of not having a father figure in their life as much as I had to. No male role model, no guidance just a single mother doing the best she can for her children with no handouts. Today, I see Carlton as just another statistic who was cowardly enough to bring innocent lives into this cruel world and not take care of them. I no longer have complaints or regrets for my feeling towards him, everything I have felt towards him from sorrow to guilt is no longer existent. I have blamed myself for his mistakes and wrong doings and I