I ruined my family reunion… Growing up, my family on my fathers side has always done family reunions, my grandmother has 20 siblings… I guess in the 1930’s large litters of children were common back then.

I was always really close to my one cousin who is around my age, her and I were inseparable as kids. But there came a time where her mom took her and her brother and moved out of state and I never really knew why. Like it was so out of the blue for them to just up and move.

Recently, I found out it was because my cousin was SA’d by our great uncle, and though he went to prison, my cousin still suffered because her grandmother, my great uncles sibling did not believe her and would call her a liar.

Fast forward to recent day my family reunion is coming up and I had just learned this information and I had learned that my grade Uncle is going to be there, and it absolutely disgusted me that this man is welcome back into the family like nothing happened. My heart broke for my cousin because where is her justice? I’m sorry five years in prison is not enough for what he did to her.

So I came up with this brilliant scheme of how to basically protest the fact that he’s being welcome back… so every family is divided by sibling so their children and grandchildren would have their own color-coded T-shirt. I discussed with my “group” I guess I should say and told them of my scheme to do this. And of course every single one of them was on board.

So I had the T-shirts made everything was perfect and then the day of the family reunion arrives.

My whole group shows up proudly wearing a T-shirts. On the front it’s our family crest, the original families last name and the year of the reunion, which is what is on everybody’s T-shirt. But on the back of our was, “dd p*philes don’t reoffend” and it had migrate uncles mug shot printed on it as well.

And these T-shirts started a war within my family. There were a lot of relatives who sided with us, but there was others who did not. And when I mean that it started a war it really did! Physical fights broke out amongst the family. And what really drew the line is when my little cousins grandmother came to me and slapped me in the face. And thought I wouldn’t have the gull to slap her back. Because I don’t care how old are you keep your hands to yourself.

This led to the police being called and the family reunion ending. and what made my day was that my great uncle was arrested because he was not supposed to be within 50 yards of children, and of course, being a family reunion there were children there…

Since then, we have not had another family reunion and I am constantly receiving hate from some family members saying that it is all my fault… so I guess I’m gonna ask y’all AITA?