あらすじ
In a time where the call is Black Lives Matter and Justice or Else, this book intentionally aims to equip parents, educators, juvenile justice workers, and faith-based communities with the knowledge of why Black boys are Missing In Action as evidenced by the statistical data: MIS-EDUCATED through the special education industry, MISDIAGNOSED: (Learning disabilities that have no medical test to substantiate the validity of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; MEDICATED: given psychiatric drugs that the Drug Enforcement Agency has classified with opium, morphine, and cocaine. INCARCERATED through the school to prison pipeline and zero tolerance policies. And once social institutions depict these boys as unintelligent and delinquent their homicide becomes justified resulting in their ANNIHILATION and lack of judicial consequences for police misconduct. The author provides strategies for reversing the negative trend of black boys becoming MIA by challenging parents and communities to refocus their AIM: ASSEMBLE their human and fiscal resources to meet the traditional and nontraditional needs of black boys, collect the necessary INFORMATION to assess the needs of black boys across all life domains to best meet their unmet needs, and lastly, create a process for MOBILIZING People of Color and People of Concern that will sustain these efforts so that change becomes sustainable and intergenerational. This book is a must have for every parent who is raising an African American son in the inner-city.