When I was in pre-k I thought if I thouched a black person I would turn black, so I was always scared to death to hold there hand in games or something, and when I did, I'd wash my hands.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- My mom told me that if I didn't wash my hair black widow spiders would come live in it.— grew up in Nebraska
- I used to think that if a white person and a black person has a baby it would be mexican.— J
- I thought black people were black because they drank chocolate milk. — Shelby
- The first time I saw a black person (I was about 3), I thought he was made of chocolate.— Ronne
- 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