Forward/Introduction of an unblinking look at what it is like, to be an African American Man with depression. And analysis of the connection between racism and the illness

The misused, misguided, misunderstood, miseducated, are the results of a systematic decree set forth to decapitate the minds of boy's, preventing then from becoming true Men. And it is no accident that spiritual, psychological, and economic & emotional death occurrs as a result from the systematic assassination and annihilation of the Black Boy

Like Bob Marley sang in the song, I shot the sheriff. He said that the evil ones decreed to kill them before they grow

Chapter 2 section 1: the importance of imagery and it's power that can shape who we are through how it effects our minds

The boy learns about himself from the confrontation of problems and being forced to find solutions for those problems.

When the games and the playing become a substitute for determining some strategic life plan, then, you are stuck as a boy

This mind operates with instant panic from a position if instinct and impulse.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became a Man. I put away childish things

The continuous state of evolution or on-going development. The human is transformed by his thinking.

Dr Na'im Akbar is one of the world's preeminent African American psychologists and pioneers in the development of an African-centered approach to modern psychology.