Getting Angry Can Be a Good Thing

In class we read the article "Getting Angry Can Be a Good Thing" by Cecilia Munoz it was about how someone making her angry gave her the determination to become the Vice President of the Office of Research, Advocacy and Legislation at the National Council of La Raza. It all started when a close friend of hers said to her that he thought the U.S. might someday go to war in Latin America. He looked her in the eye and told her that if it happens, he believes my parents belong in an internment camp just like the Japanese-Americans during World War II, according to the article. She was outraged that someone said that to her and the fact that it was someone that was her friend. She was born in America but her parents weren’t, they moved here and are immigrants. Since that has been said to her it gave her the perseverance to become a member of the civil rights movement. Now, she works to promote immigration rights to help poverty and discrimination of Hispanic Americans. She actually used her angry in a positive way that lead to help other immigrates like her parents. I think she did a smart thing, instead of just being mad she found a way to make her anger into a good thing. She should be proud of herself and I think she is doing a good job even though she doesn’t feel like what she does is enough. Instead of letting her anger get the best of her she took it upon herself to help immigrants so no one had to feel like how she felt.