I was about 4 when I first saw a black person. (give me a break, I lived on a farm in Tennessee!) My mother says that I asked him if someone had set him on fire! My mom does not remember how he explained his skin color to me...
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- I used to believe if i touched a cameleon i would change the color of my skin. — Sophie
- When I was younger, I used to think that people with different colored skin had different color poops.— Samuel
- My sister once asked her mother why she didn't paint her black....Anon
- My visual representation of GOD was Mr Clean wearing a white robe... but his skin was a green/yellowish color.— Ryan Williams
- I used to believe that eating chicken skin will give me nightmares.— zihui
- I used to think that if a white person and a black person has a baby it would be mexican.— J