When I was young, I thought that black people had a horrible skin affliction. I thought I would slowly turn black if I touched them, and so I avoided them like the plague until I was about 7 years old.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- When I was little my dad told me that if you drank too much coffee it would make your skin turn black. Anon
- I thought black people were black because they drank chocolate milk. — Shelby
- i used to believe that white skinned people sheaded skin and became black
— help[help - 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
- i used to believe that black wood ear
came from the skin of the bats— JULIE