Written shortly after the acquittal of George Zimmerman this piece speaks to the frustration of inner city youth in the facebook of injustice and a system that shows them that violence is rewarded while peaceful abiding is penalized at worst, ignored at best.

It Walks

Inspired by the speech of Assata Shakur, prepared within her solitary  confines, at a woman's prison in New Jersey, on a contraband tape recorder smuggled out through her attorney, broadcast on radio airwaves nationwide. Contrasting the stigmatizing labels applied to the Nation's downtrodden with the embodiment of these same behaviors by the very persons casting these aspersions, "They Call Us" is a powerful ode to 'Auntie Assata'

GrumpyBilly