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I(26 female) have been married to my husband Mikaah(28 male) for almost 9 months. I have a younger brother, Wesley(19 male) who never really liked my husband. We met in middle school but we didn't really start talking to each other until our sophomore year of highschool. Mikaah has always been a patient and happy person. But everything went south last Saturday night. Very big detail, Mikaah is black. My family and I are extremely white. My brother has always been a little racist but never enough were it was taken literally. That's why I never brought Mikaah around him because Wes and his friends have a VERY bad habit of saying the N word. Mikaah knew about Wesleys habit and said as long as he didn't say it to or around him, he didn't care. Fast forward last Saturday night, my parents invited us to dinner to celebrate my cousins pregnancy. It was at my uncle's house and all the kids were upstairs while the adults were downstairs. Of course there was heavy drinks and my brother ended up getting a little drunk. Mikaah got up from his seat and to go get something to drink when my brother BUMPED INTO HIM. Mikaah said excuse me but Wes cut him off mid way and said "watch your step dumbass n****" . Then Mikaah lost it. He started punching my brother even when he started screaming and bleeding. Usually I would stop Mikaah but in this situation my brother definitely deserved it. My dad, my uncle, and my sisters husband spent 5 minutes trying to pull my Mikaah off. When Mikaah finally stopped, he kicked my brother one last time then left. Everybody started babying my brother even though they said they didn't feel bad for him. When I saw Wesleys face its was red, bloody, and extremely swollen. I immediately left cause I just couldn't see my brother like that. When I got home Mikaah was watching a movie on the couch. I got beside him and started crying. He asked me if I was mad at him and I told him of course not, but that was a little extreme. He got defensive and said my brother disrespected his ethnicity and he couldn't even look me in the eye. He packed a bag and said he was staying at a hotel I tried talking him out of it but he just walked out. My family is going berserk on me asking me why I didn't stand up for my brother, while Mikaah won't talk to for any reason at all, and on top of all that I found out I was 6 weeks pregnant. What should I do??