I was the only Native American in my whole school and the other children constantly call me names like Squaw or Darkie. When I cried to my mom one night, she told me that in the beginning the Creator decided he wanted people in the world so he broke sticks and put them in the oven, the first batch of sticks he took out where white people and he said, "you are too undone, I'll put you over there." and he put them in Europe. The second bunch he took out, he said, "you are too dark, I'll put you over there." and he placed them in Africa. The last batch he said, "you people are just right, you can stay right here." She then said some of the white and black sticks eventually made their way to our part of the world. For some reason, I felt better and it didn't bother me as much when the white sticks called me darkie because according to the Creator, I was just right.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- My parents always told me at night the sticks we had played with throughout the day turned into snakes.. — Sarahb
- When I was little, my parents told me if i ate my fish sticks, I would become invisible.— Jake
- I thought that old movies were black and white because the world was black and white then. — K
- I used to believe that black people were white people dipped in Chocolate. That's what my dad told me...— Steve
- when i was litte
I used to believe that white people had white blood and black people had black blood.Anon - I thought the world was black and white because of all the smoke from the bombs in Second World War.— Bjoern