the Nonsense in Between

Thug Life

I've been too angry to post lately. Even as I type this I fear my anger will interfere with my ability to articulate.

You may or may not have read about the recent events that induced this indignation on my husband's blog but I feel the need to get these things off my chest here too.

Before we left for Sean and Penny's wedding last week the family was worried to leave the house in the care of Dominic's little sister, Kirstie. My father-in-law and his girlfriend would also be gone on a vacation of their own. Dominic and I would only be gone a couple of days but my father-in-law gave Kirstie a real good talking-to before he left. Lot of good it did, too.

We left here thursday afternoon, the house gets ransacked by 8 thugs on friday night. How did 8 thugs know that the house would be unattended? Dominic and I dont hang out with thugs, Ginger and Gary dont either, but Kirstie certainly does. She opened our home to these fuckers and has the audacity to argue she has no involvement in this. She didnt plan this therefore she's free and clear of blame plus she said "sorry" even though its not her fault so she should get credit for that. She went on to explain that "its not that big of a deal, only a laptop was stolen". NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL?! What the fuck is in this little girl's skull? Beans? This is a huge fucking deal. But what does she care? She's a hardcore thug so nothing gets to her. What's more is that she's never had to deal with the repercussions of any of her stupid mistakes. Windows get smashed, dad dishes out the dough to fix them. Mailbox gets smashed, dad gets up early and fixes it. Car gets wrecked twice in two weeks, dad to the rescue. Kirstie has a sob story for each incident and it always ends in "its not my fault". Each time it gets more serious and this time she's put her family in danger. Go out drinking and drugging getting in fist fights every other night, fine. But bring this on this home? She's got some goddamn nerve.

She has no fucking respect for all her family has provided for her. This, and all of her mistakes, are a slap in the face to all the hardwork that has gone into her upbringing. She has no clue what a life like this takes. With the help of my family I was able to escape the life of an impoverished thug. I grew up hearing drive-by's in my neighborhood almost weekly, my own father was in jail for a year when i was young, a good fifty percent or more of my family has been in jail. My closest cousin is in prison for the next 20 years. My mom witnessed her brother-in-law get shot and killed in my grandmother's house. Another uncle of mine hung himself in a tree near my grandparents' house. My dad's cousin was shot and killed, drug overdoses have taken a few too. As close as I have been to all of this I managed to escape it. And here Kirstie is, a privileged little white girl, trying her her hardest to bring all of that here. She's had more handed to her than any of her friends and this is how she repays her dad, this is how she contributes to society.

Its disgraceful and infuriating.

We can only hope that she will soon come to terms with the gravity of this situation and make some serious changes.

Posted by nicole at May 15, 2007 09:45 AM