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No sooner had the reaction to the murder of George Floyd by state representatives appeared on the streets of the U.S.A. and other countries than predictable voices like ‘peace activist’ Donald Trump emerged, attacking “violence”. Such protesting about protest is hypocritical. What it really means is one type of violence (ours) is ok but your reaction is not. Same for anger. Much anger, from childhood on, is a reaction to injustice and such anger will lead to violence if ignored. If we are not angry about injustice we are complacent, and complacency enables continuance of the injustice and the anger. The truth is no progressive changes in history, from abolition of slavery to democracy and civil rights have occurred without anger and the violence it will lead to when the injustice that caused it continues Not all anger is just or creative but it can be and often has been, so the key issue here is not violence; it is whose violence and what is its purpose. If the unjust cause is not removed the anger and resulting violence cant’t  be either. Better understood, such anger and violence, are the necessary seeds of change and improvement, if improvement is ever to occur. Building a better society for All in it is the best way to prevent anger. And “violence”.