happyboy

Yesterday was a bad day, I've had worse, but it was pretty bad. My sister-in-law and my 15 month old niece dropped by my house to get away from my brother. Apparently, he had gotten drunk and was yelling racial slurs, so they had to get out of there. He wasn't being violent, but I can only imagine how uncomfortable it was.

I don't think, or at least I hope my brother isn't truly racist. It bothers the hell out of me. I worry that if he is it could result in the break up of his family or my niece, Ember, could learn some bad things from him and grow into someone I no longer like or worse gets herself into a terrible situation because of it.

My brother has always been someone who needs attention. He can also be very dramatic, throw in the fact that he doesn't think before he acts sometimes and the result has been several situations over the years where he has embarassed himself and others around him. The big problem is that he goes about getting attention the wrong way and doesn't realize that or that the attention he winds up getting isn't always positive.

I really hope that yesterday was one of those times