The former hip-hop journalist explores his personal odyssey in his new book,leaving destructive and misogynistic patterns of his past behind to uproot deeply ingrained sexism and privilege in men, boys and himselfKevin Powell grew up in poverty in the 1970s in Jersey City, and New Jersey,and to this day he remembers the refrain of mixed messages thrown at him during his childhood. His mother’s only directions on fitting a man were: “Don’t be like your father and “do the right thing”.
His early interaction with a police officer’s fist would also wake him up to the reality that the punishment for black boys compared with others is unequal. That rage and confusion stayed with him for a long time. As a result, it took decades for Powell to construct his own identity as a male in America.
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Source: theguardian.com