“Look at my skin color” a poem & performance by Franco Esteve

Watch now on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jl3odetfh-I

It’s the next one in this series and it’s meant as a criticism towards some people’s views on and obsession with origin, color, and race. As a Puerto Rican artist growing up in many places throughout the U.S., I’m very familiar with people’s “perceptions” and have received more than my share of “perception” and pre-conception due to my “origin” and “race”, judgements, prejudice, stereotypes, etc. In my opinion, we’re all part of just one race: the human race.

Written and performed by Franco Esteve. ©2019 Franco Esteve. All rights reserved.

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Poem Text:

“Look at my skin color
ignore the blueness of my eyes
can you not see my blackness?
are you blind?

Am I not a man of color as you said?
is it not a condition of the place
where I was bred
that all of us are birthed a different race?

Is it not clear
this color I wear
is it not the burden I bear
to constantly carry your judgement?

Look at my face
my blackness I can’t erase
for it exists right there for all to see
it’s in my name… my voice… my birth

Agree to disagree?
I can only go with what I’m taught
and you said that’s how I was brought
so, in me, black is what I see

In you? I see a d**k.”

Written and performed by Franco Esteve.

©2019 Franco Esteve

Background Song: Atmosphere by Franco Esteve, from the album and short film, Paranoia, The Doll Chronicles

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