“Virtuous” anger, the philosopher Myisha Cherry says, is “the kind of anger that I see as necessary to really bring about a better world.”
, who has worried that feminist anger at the patriarchy can get in the way of fighting against injustice.
I started thinking about this subject from a philosophical perspective in 2012, with the killing of Trayvon Martin. Any kind of writer wants their work to be relevant, but the kind of work that I do, I don’t want it to be relevant. I really want it to age out. So in some ways I’m kind of sad that we’re still here, that the things that we’re angry about are still manifesting.
Black anger has so often been weaponized against Black people. Do you see this as a reclamation of that anger? I came to the topic of anger through my research on forgiveness. As I was reading what philosophers have said about what forgiveness is, what it requires, should we do it, et cetera, I discovered that one of the more popular philosophical definitions of forgiveness was “letting go of anger.
I was a philosophy major in college, so I know that much of the literature can be brutally difficult to get into. But a book like “The Case for Rage” is very clearly not written only to be read by other academics.
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