Xamarin, Android: TextView's textcolor doenst change when set in xml AND programmatically

Question

feels like this is my first day of doing this:

No matter what I do:

        txtMotto.SetTextColor(Color.ParseColor("#6f6e6e"));

or

            android:textColor="#765313"

The textcolor does not change AT ALL. However, my designer in Visual Studio does show the changed color, but my phone: NA.

It doenst matter what I change the textcolor to, it just doenst do anything...

How can this be?

Thanks