I'm Angry
I grew up in a city where survival is the first language and anger is the second.
Chicago raised me - Catholic school discipline on one side, real street warfare on the other. I learned early that toughness wasn't optional, awareness wasn't optional, and pain had an expiration date even when the trauma didn't.
I'M ANGRY is the story of how all of that shaped me.
A boy from the East Side becomes a man inside fraternity sessions, chaotic relationships, fatherhood battles, juvenile detention pods, and the birth of a purpose bigger than pain.
This book travels through:
Chicago childhood - block politics, danger routes, and unspoken codes
Fraternity initiation - discipline, brotherhood, and the lessons pain teaches
Kimbo (World County Juvenile) - 23-and-1 seclusion, riots, emotional breakdowns, and the truth behind a broken system
Toxic love, heartbreak, divorce, and fighting to co-parent with dignity
The fire that turned getting fired into building Strong Mentoring
The reality of being a loud Black man in systems that prefer silence
Fatherhood - the one place anger turns into pure love and responsibility
Told with raw honesty, dark humor, Chicago edge, and sharp emotional intelligence, this memoir reads like a documentary, a sermon, and a war report all at once.
This book isn't about anger destroying a man.
It's about anger building one.
About pain becoming purpose.
About learning that you can survive anything, but you shouldn't survive everything.
If you've ever been underestimated, mishandled, overlooked, or told to shrink your voice, this book speaks your language.
Anger didn't break me.
Anger built Strong Mentoring.
Anger built the man telling this story.
And anger might just build you too.
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