Is this sadness or anger? Is there a difference?

Black Lives Matter protesters chant, “We have a duty to fight. We have a duty to win. We must love and protect one another. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

The past few months have been very hard. That’s an understatement, of course, but it bears mentioning.

For the first three months of the coronavirus pandemic my almost daily involvement with the Pasadena Tenants Union has given me an outlet for my anxiety and fear that I and my neighbors would experience illness, displacement, or worse. Being engaged kept me from spinning out in…