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Booker expresses fear over racism in the song 'Witness'

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Today's Morning Edition music is from "Witness," the title track from a new album out Friday by Benjamin Booker.

In an essay about the album, Booker, who's African-American, writes:

"Growing up in the South, I experienced my fair share of racism but I managed to move past these things without letting them affect me too much. It wasn't until Trayvon Martin, a murder that took place about a hundred miles from where I went to college, and the subsequent increase in attention to black hate crimes over the next few years that, I began to feel something else. Fear. Real fear. The song 'Witness' came out of this experience and the desire to do more than just watch."