From The Color of Our Skin to the Color of a Bandanna illustrates how African Americans came together to fight for the civil rights of colored people during the time of racial injustice. The author also examines how modern-day African American men are currently battling one another over the color of a handkerchief. The author further reveals that these young men are not making the most out of all of the freedoms and opportunities that they have today, of which their parents didn’t have during those days of inequality.