I used to be angry all the time. One of my favorite songs in my teens and 20s and 30s was by Styx called "Fooling yourself" (https://youtu.be/AtzIWPeun7c). It talks about the young man and his anger in that it encourages him to get up get back on his feet. Good song, great hook, one of my favorites.
In my anger I would hide myself and go into things angry. I would go into things looking for the opportunity to ask the question that made someone else mad. I would watch for chances to express my anger. Or I would sit and simmer and people would know from the dark cloud over me that I was like a volcano ready to blow.
I've grown since then. I've learned to tamp that down and not express it. I've learned to redirect and to slow down and express myself in positive ways so that I don't feed fuel into the fire that burns inside me most of the time.
As I watch the amplified view of angry people burning and looting because they are being allowed to I feel bad for them. Many of the people burning and looting are paid to do it. They were trained on how to do it. They were mobilized and brought into specific areas to do it. They were funded by people outside of our country to do it.
And so the message about a man who was kneeled on by a police officer is lost. The ugliness that we're seeing seems more the ugliness of an enemy and not necessarily of an outraged populace. We would be wise to remember that.
