Gangbanger: “You don’t even drink! Take your ass to
school, bitch. Get the fuck up off the block.”Tiffany: “Let me hit the weed.”Gangbanger: “Your ass can’t hit no weed. You don’t
know how to smoke, bitch. Go take your ass home and
go read one of those heavy-ass books you got in your
backpack.”ͳey could cuss me out all the time, but I didn’t mind. I
just wanted to be a part of something, you know?
And the cool part was, I got to party with them, but
didn’t have to do all the terrible shit you have to do to be in
a gang. Best of both worlds. Not a lot of shit went my way
when I was young, but that did.
Grandma
Like I said, my grandma eventually got custody of me and
my siblings when I was fourteen. I was still in the system,
because even though my grandmother got custody of me,
she wanted to get paid. So we had to go to court and stuĉ.
And the social worker came and checked on us every
month and everything. We were with our grandmother, but
we were still state property.
Even though my grandmother was my legal guardian, she
didn’t want to teach me to drive.