Welcome to Current Affairs.

My name is Nathan Robinson.

I am the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs Magazine.

I am joined today by Professor Myesha Cherry.

She is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside,

where she's director of the Emotion and Society Lab. She's the author of the book, The Case for Rage, Why Anger, is

essential to anti-racist struggle. Professor Cherry, thank you so much for joining us on

current affairs today. Thank you so much for joining us on current affairs today.

Thank you so much for having me.

Well, I think that anger is often treated as something,

just the way we talk about it casually, inherently bad.

Inherently something you want to avoid is being angry.

In fact, you know, a piece of writing.

They say, well, it's a very angry polemic, you know, as if it's just wrong to being angry. In fact, you know, a piece of writing. They say, well, it's a very angry

polemic, you know, as if it's just wrong to be angry. But you take, you think it's the case four

rate. So, and I like this because I feel angry about a lot of things, a lot of the time. And I

want to feel justified in that anger. So tell us, why is it okay to be angry? Yeah, I mean, I mean, before I

answer that question, I think we should be sympathetic to those who are perhaps critical, right?

And so when I think about why people think that anger is bad, I think it's for several reasons,

right? So in one sense, we have a tendency to think that things that feel bad is actually bad,

right? So it doesn't feel good

to be angry, right? It feels good to be joyful. It feels good to be compassionate. Yeah. It feels good to be

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