I only know this because my parents told me, but when I was really tiny, I thought skin color was a result of cleanliness. We lived in an all-white town for some reason, and the first time I saw an African-American, I told my mother (loudly), "That lady's all dirty." My mother was not thrilled.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- I thought that all black people were African-AmericanAnon
- My poop was always around the same color as my skin so I assumed white people's poop was white.— jaycee
- 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 people who were african american were dark because they drank to much hot cocoa.Anon
- I used to believe that african american people were black because they ate too much CoCo Puffs— Jessica
- When I was a kid I thought that when my parents were kids, the world was black and white and had no color...— KKM