My parents are really liberal and always taught me that racism was bad and everything like that.
Unfortunately it had the consequence that I was really frightened of talking to non-white people until I was about 9 or 10, because I was scared I'd say something that could make me seem racist.
Also, I never used the word 'black' to describe somebody. Like there'd be an actor on TV and I'd be like "What else has the tall guy with the dark hair been in?" because I didn't want to seem racist by calling him black.
A childhood belief about appearance
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a racist is something like a person who loves to race on the racetrack.Anon
- When I was little I used to believe that black people saw in black and white. — Chelsea
- I thought that old movies were black and white because the world was black and white then. — K
- when i was litte
I used to believe that white people had white blood and black people had black blood.Anon - I used to think that the old days were actually black and white because of the old black and white pictures.— Leigh Taylor
- I used to believe that old people saw in black and white. Anon