I guess when I was really little, I hadn't seen too many black people. My dad invited a friend of his for dinner who was black. I guess I just assumed he was dirty and told him he needed to wash his hands. He understood, laughed, and said he had been trying to wash it off for years.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- My mom told me that if I didn't wash my hair black widow spiders would come live in it.— grew up in Nebraska
- i used to believe that the "coin wash" was to clean my dirty pennies.— rmutt
- I once asked my dad 'when you were little were you in black and white?'
So I guess I believed that lol XD— Moo - My friend convinced me that if I used a bar of soap to wash my hair instead of shampoo that I would go bald.— Michelle
- I thought black people were black because they drank chocolate milk. — Shelby
- When i was a child, i used to believe that when people ate black beans, they became black— Mar'ia Elena