* Why I wrote The Complicated Life Of The African-American Man(What's on his mind)* In writing this book, I have endeavored to encapsulate the honest and sincere thoughts, emotions and motivations of African-American men. For the African-American male reader, hopefully this book will be a valued tool, one which can be used to articulate some of your concerns and experiences that until this point have not been adequately expounded upon and addressed. To the European-American reader (as well as all other readers) this book will give you an opportunity to better understand the African-American male. Hopefully, an open and honest dialog will occur, one that is void of the pretenses of “political correctness” and other “feel good” antidotes that give the impression that America is a cohesive and healed nation. In this world of sound bites and easy-to-digest stereotypical verbiage, we try to equate the sum total of an individual’s character by the simplest form of addition and subtraction. Sometimes the complexities of someone demand an algebraic type of reasoning. For too many years, the African-American man has been portrayed in an overly simplified way. As the African-American man exposes you to America, as seen through his eyes, heard through his ears and felt through his experiences, listen and learn.