The Argument You Shouldn't Be Anger

There's still a lot of, you know, white resistance to black anger as having transformative power. And that sort of sanitized version of King is like, oh, just about love. That's the version of King that's friendly to middle and upper middle class white folks who want to have their cake and eat it too. But yet we often hear activists say things like, we should be angrier about X, Y, or Z. So I take that to be a productive critique of my values, of my action, of my priorities.

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