Why He Hates You! : How Unreconciled Maternal Anger is Destroying Black Men and Boys

Janks Morton in his semi-autobiographical work tackles head on the taboo subject of maternal resentment in the African American community. Why specifically maternal resentment? A generation of young black children have been raised exclusively by single-mothers. Morton acknowledges while that some of these children's antipathy may be directed towards the non-residential fathers, predominantly the object and the focus of a young black boy's rage is directed squarely at the person responsible for their guidance, their direction, their socialization, their joy and their pain. Their primary care givers and providers - their Mothers