I suppose one reason it seems i'm always focused on the poor quality of life is because my incarceration, the captivity of a million Black men and women, 1/2 of the entire population locked up in Amerika, is an extension of the whips, the cutlass, the branding irons, the dogs, the shotguns and noses that once tore into innocent flesh, severed bone from body and breath from life!

Only these modern day shackles are psychological, the physical unsightliness has been done away with, hidden from tender eyes; in laws like 3 strikes, mandatory sentencing, immigration reform, wars on drugs, crime, homelessness, poverty, and other lies.