This study explores the perceptions of racial microaggressions among African American males and how they impact the African American male in higher education. The intent is to illuminate the microaggressive impact on education and teaching, as well as to argue the importance of understanding that responsive education and counseling of African American males. This must be predicated on an understanding of the historical and cultural context that shapes the psychosocial development of this unique group. Microaggressions are brief, everyday exchanges that send denigrating messages to certain individuals because of their group membership (people of color, women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBTs)). The primary attempt is to demonstrate how these microaggressions affect every area life for the African American male, and that these “subtle, stunning, often automatic, and nonverbal exchanges which are ‘put-downs’” (Sue, 2010) directed toward people of color, often automatically or unconsciously by his White counterparts, must be recognized by both the victim as well as the perpetrator, in order to facilitate any type of resolution.