Anger Anthem: A Brief and Impractical Guide to Girls, Guns, God, Grace and Other Guttural Matters - Hardcover

Grimes, Jerry Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 148361381X ISBN 13: 9781483613819

Publisher: Xlibris, 2013

Synopsis

I AM UNSURE HOW TO BEGIN as I have started and stopped more than I care to admit Sometimes stopping out of fear I have written chapters that will never see the light of day Sometimes starting out of anger I am frustrated by my own ramblings as rage can only take me but so far There truly is no safe place to pour out my soul and I once found solace in the new thoughts I could entrap somewhere between the notepad and the printed page I cannot and will not promise that what follows will not again result in the incoherent self indulgent ramblings of an humbled narcissist My insecurities and anger betray me at every turn insecurities stemming from my blackness my Southernness and my aloofness anger resulting from having loved one who cheated the resentment fashioned from being hated by my own and even more hated by those who disown me I am a black Baptist from a low income background in the eyes of this world I am less than nothing My mother and father gave me all they had and did not have as I was protected by my older brother and older sister who I love more than life Then there is my native United States which I love despite some ugly realities that have left me beyond jaded I over compensate I over extend and I resentfully show compassion to the racists I despise I have feigned the personality of the misogynists I detest I have pretended to share the exaggerated fears of the xenophobes I dread and given silent ascent to the homophobes I pity I am angry I am angriest with myself I am in all likelihood one of the angriest men in the history of history And as if unto death I offer to the world my past my heart my failures and my abandoned hopes without precondition I am far too much of a coward to commit suicide just yet and have reached a breaking point in which I must either air my grievances with myself and this world or finally amass the courage to exit this place My detractors will undoubtedly say Then Jerry please do us

About this title

About the Author:

Jerry Michael Grimes is a former candidate for U.S. Congress, movie producer, ordained minister, college lecturer and entrepreneur, who holds an undergraduate degree from Saint Augustine's College, graduate degrees from Virginia Union University, Fuller Theological Seminary, Union Presbyterian Seminary and a doctorate from Liberty University. As both the producer of fi lms such as Death of a Preacher and a university lecturer in the disciplines of religion, theology and philosophy, Jerry continues pushing the boundaries of freethinking, political action and education. He resides in eastern North Carolina.

About this edition

• Publisher: Xlibris
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 148361381X
• ISBN 13: 9781483613819
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 74