When I was little, I watched Reading Rainbow ALL THE TIME. I also lived a very sheltered life, our neighborhood being comprised entirely of retirement-aged white people. Since Lavar Burton was the only black person I'd really ever seen, I thought that all black people looked like him. I couldn't figure out how they were able to tell each other apart.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- When I was little I used to believe that black people saw in black and white. — Chelsea
- when i was litte
I used to believe that white people had white blood and black people had black blood.Anon - I used to believe that black people were white people dipped in Chocolate. That's what my dad told me...— Steve
- I thought black people were black because they drank chocolate milk. — Shelby
- I used to believe that old people saw in black and white. Anon
- I used to believe that before color television, people only saw in black an white.— CD