ok i am a white gurl 2 start off with. Now i have always eavesdropped on my mother as a child (which i still am, so i still do) and i picked up a lot of stuff. And i noticed that she always whispered the word "black" when she was talking about somebody that was well, black. I actually believed untill i was 12 that this was a repulsive thing to call someone because my mother would always whisper this word. It actually ended up bieng a word in my crossword puzzle for health(dont ask) and i couldnt get the answer because i thought it was a curse!! I yelled at my mother so much for that one!
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- i used to think that the word "stupid" was a curse word, ranging in scale right beside the "f" word.Anon
- I thought "sake" was a curse word— shh
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I used to think that everything was once in black and white untill they invented color tv.Anon
- As a small child I believed that the word was "nakeup", finally I found out that it was actually "makeup".— Hannnah P.
- My sister once asked her mother why she didn't paint her black....Anon