Highlights:
The Weight
White Rage
Black & Blue
Blacker Than Thou
Know Your Rights
Message to My Daughters

I'm not really sure how the bioessentialist "Composite Pops" slipped into the collection, but it had me return to previous essays in the collection with far more scrutiny than was ultimately fair. It definitely pumped my brakes on what was otherwise a masterful collection.  I feel like I need to reread hook's "The Will to Change" to get the taste out of my mouth. 

With the ways masculinity often shutters the emotional side of men and the ways fathers often withhold showing their love towards their sons and how that creates distrust and devalues the mothers’ love (which is easier to obtain), maybe our message should be one of loving as political action and living authentically.