As a mother of a teenage black son Pandora Jackson-Sears identifies with parents who are raising their adolescent black sons in America. While many struggle to find their identity, those raised in the suburbs struggle even harder to fit in with their inner-city peers. Jackson-Sears taps into a black son's world by focusing on environment, peer pressure, police disparity, absent fathers, gangs, drugs, sex, identity crisis, race, stereotypes, school, and the entertainment world.