Keenly analytical and detail-driven writing that provides an unusually candid window to the events and influences that occurred before he served his time and in doing so offers a prescient warning to the political leaders, non-profit organizations, law enforcement personal, church congregations and neighborhood teachers of today-who often struggle to understand how to stop the overlapping and never-ending cycles of generational violence and disrupted growth that not only hold back- but ruthlessly decimate- entire generations of African-American families and friends