There is a silent and urgently serious problem that can only be found in a subset of this Nation's "African American" society. This is a decades old problem that has existed within the Black community since the early 1800's.

As an ethnic group, Black people have had to become experts of integration and appeasement; to be unsuccessful with these skills could cost a man, woman, boy or girl their lives. From that time until now in the 21st century, many of America's Black community members are continually exposed to a remarkable amount of negative peer pressure from sources found in everyday life.
Until the negative sources of this peer pressure have been definitively named and the targeted behaviors are addressed, the effects of entire communities being exposed to this type of ethnic peer pressure will continue to demand the attention of not only those citizens within the United States, but of civilized Nations around the world, for ages to come.

This short volume by Dr. Hakeem L. Spencer serves the purpose of a much needed "first" step towards identifying the main causes for the ethnic peer pressure that exists in today's African American communities.