When on holiday one year I saw a black person on the beach and remarked to my mother "Look, they're black all over!"
Some how I'd thought they just had black hands and faces.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- 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
- I used to believe that black people were black because they had so many frecles that they merged together.Anon
- When I was little I used to believe that black people saw in black and white. — Chelsea
- i used to think that black people had black skeleatons.Anon
- The first time I saw a black person (I was about 3), I thought he was made of chocolate.— Ronne