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Reginald Lewis Sr.
MY NAME IS REGINALD ANTOINE LEWIS SR. I WAS BORN IN HOPKINSVILLE KY. BUT RAISED IN WASHINGTON DC. MY FATHER NAME THE LATE C.W. HUMPHREY AND MY MOTHER DOROTHY JEAN ROBINSON LEWIS. MY MOM RAISED THRE...view moreMY NAME IS REGINALD ANTOINE LEWIS SR. I WAS BORN IN HOPKINSVILLE KY. BUT RAISED IN WASHINGTON DC. MY FATHER NAME THE LATE C.W. HUMPHREY AND MY MOTHER DOROTHY JEAN ROBINSON LEWIS. MY MOM RAISED THREE WONDERFUL KIDS MY BROTHER MANUEL, MY SISTER VERONICA AND MYSELF. I ALSO HAVE SISTERS AND A BROTHER ON MY FATHER SIDE OF THE FAMILY APRIL ANGIE AND TERSIA AND BROTHER WAYNE. AS A CHILD I WENT TO MOTT AND KC LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN WASHINGTON DC. I WAS A TO MYSELF KID. I GRADUATED IN 1982 FROM MCKINLEY TECH HIGH SCHOOL. IN THE MID 80’S AND 90’S WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE RAP AND GO GO BANDS FOR ME THE WELL KNOW BANDS WERE RARE ESSENCE WITH LITTLE BENNY WITH JAMES FUNK., EU BAND PETWORTH, REDS AND THE BOYS, TROUBLE FUNK, AYRE BAND AND MANY OTHERS. WASHINGTON DC WAS KNOWN BACK THEN FOR STREET GANGS AS WELL THE A TEAM FROM SEAT PLASENT MD. THE HILL BOYS, THE GANGSTERS CHRONICLES FROM GEORGIA AVE. NORTHWEST. THEY WERE KNOW FOR FIGHTING AND JUMPING PEOPLE FOR THERE SILVER CHAINS. BUT IN TIME THE STREET GANGS DIED OUT MOST OF THE GUYS AN LADIES ARE LOCK UP. KILL OR MURDERED IN JAIL OR JUST GOT WISER, OLDER AND CHANGED THERE LIVES. I REALIZED MOSTLY EVERYONE WANTS A SINCE OF BELONG OR RATHER LOVE IN THE WRONG PLACES. SOME IN DRUGS SEX, GANGS ETC. I REALIZED ALSO ONE BAD CHOICE COULD BE A LIFETIME OF TROUBLE OR HEARTACHE, PAIN OR EVEN DEATH. THE BIBLE STATES BEWARE THE COMPANY YOU KEEP. DURING MY HIGH SCHOOL YRS I WOULD GO TO PG COUNTY IN HYATTSVILLE TO VISIT MY AUNT MARY AND LORD MORTON.. THEY HAD FIVE WONDERFUL KIDS LORD, OR SPIKE KENNY, WENDELL JACKIE, AND DARYL MORTON. THEY PLAY BASKETBALL WHILE I BRING THE GO GO TAPES FROM DC FOR ALL US TO LISTEN TO. AFTER HIGH SCHOOL I GOT A JOB AT GREATER SOUTHEAST HOSPITAL IN SE WASHINGTON IN FOOD SERVICE DEPT. FOR 10 YRS I WAS THERE FROM SUMMER YOUTH TO PM SUPERVISOR THEN LATER AM RELIEF SUPERVISOR THREW THOSE YEARS A LOT OF MY FRIENDS PAST AWAY THAT WHEN I BEGIN TO START READING THE BIBLE.view less