[encore] 387: Stop Looking At My Last Name Like That by Michael Torres

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

Today’s poem is Stop Looking At My Last Name Like That by Michael Torres.


The Slowdown is currently taking a break. We’ll be back soon with new episodes from a new host. This week, we’re going back into the archive to revisit Tracy K. Smith’s time as host. Today’s episode was originally released on May 19, 2020.


In this episode, Tracy writes… “Rationally speaking, I know that another person’s bigoted thinking is their problem, not mine. But it’s hard to leave it at that. It’s hard to accept that sometimes my race causes another person to jump to conclusions about what I know or have or deserve… and what I don’t.”


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2025-06-25 5 min

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