If you have been following my blog for a while then you have seen me post about the situation my brother is in. And for a while, this shit fucked with me. I was stressin, losing sleep, gettin angry and so forth just thinkin about my brother behind bars and then one day..... i just stopped. I've been wanting to get a tattoo of a scroll that says "My Brothers Keeper" with the names of all 7 of my younger brothers on it because i feel like i AM the keeper of my brothers. But i also realized that my brother was about 18 or 19 when this incident transpired which makes him an adult, and as an adult, he chose to make the choices he did. i would harp on him about who he hung with and being "guilty by association" and all that. Shit his mother and my father should have been beatin into his head and that ass. And i want to cry for my boy, i want to let him know that shit will be alright but in the words of Cee Lo "i wanna lie to you sometimes, but i can't/ i wanna tell you that its all good, but it aint". I watched the movie Alpha Dog with Justin Timberlake and the movie is a damn near exact portrayl of what my brother is goin through right now and when i saw the sentences the niggaz in the movie got (its based on a true story), i was a reality check that my brother could face life, if not death, in jail. And as much as i love him, i have to use him as a negative example to the other ones on what not to become. So when i think "Am I My Brothers Keeper?" i can honestly say yes because i will do what it takes to protect my other ones from this same fate. just had to get that shit off a nigga chest, yall.