Colored in America

Black

Brown

Yellow

Red








Belonging everywhere





Belonging nowhere





Person of Color





Never Enough












What am I?





Oh, that question again





What do I look like?





American





I am American of course





Don’t Americans look like me?





Must I be something else?










Is my color offensive, disturbing?





Are my eyes too almond in shape?





Is my English tainted with a lilt, an unplaceable accent?





Is my Spanish too broken or gringosized?





Does my name give too few clues, too many clues?










Qualified, categorized, hyphenated





For your comfort





For you to believe I belong





I am not out of place





I am not lost





I have not been tossed in error from a distant shore










I Belong HERE





I AM AMERICAN





Color is the marker that says I DO NOT

					

		
				
		
			





					
	
				
	


			

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    My favorite line
    
“I have not been tossed from a distant shore”
    

    Moving and poignant.
    
It seeks answers to questions that resonate so deeply….
    

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