At the age of 5 or 6 in the very early '60s my mom would take me with her shopping downtown. We took a string of street cars and buses to get there. Along the way I would notice on a regular basis "persons of color" spitting while at the bus stops or out the window of the bus. Their spit was brown. I now know it was from chewing tobacco, but at the time I reasoned that white people spit white, and brown people spit brown.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that white people had white poop and that mine was brown because I was brownAnon
- when I was little I used to think that white people had pink poop (i am brown so my poop is brown)— helena muteka
- I used to believe that if white people would turn brown in the sun then brown people would turn white.Anon
- I used to believe that big grasshoppers would spit tobacco at you if you got too close to them.— Uni
- I'm black, so as a child I used to assume that white people pooped peach the way I pooped brown.— Rick
- I used to believe chocolate milk came from brown cows and regular milk came from black and white cowsAnon