Prince Jones grew up in a privileged family. His education and experiences prepared him for the most prestigious universities in the country, one of the Ivy Leagues, but he chose Howard. Prince Jones was not a thug, a criminal, nor did he resist arrest, yet he was the victim of brutality. Honestly, Prince Jones never had the opportunity to defend himself, he was shot and killed in a case of mistaken identity, a term often used to describe the arrest or murder of a black person committed by police. His mother, Mable Jones, grew up knowing what it meant to struggle. Dr. Jones worked hard to succeed and gain status in life so that her children would not have to face the struggle she knew as a child. Dr. Jones became a dreamer, but she soon recognized that neither status, nor money, nor education could save her son. In her book, Ta-Neihsi Coates writes: “She spoke like an American, with the same expectations of correctness, even belated and regretful correctness, that she had brought to medical school all those years ago. And she spoke as a black woman, with all the pain that undermines those exact feelings. (p.143) Dr. Jones had to painfully recognize that America is not a just country. America can be driven by money, by life, by freedom