i didnt really understand different races when i was little, and when we were in the car, i saw a black person and was amazed and told everyone in there i saw a brown coloured man. my brother who was 5 years older, went on to say hed seen a whole black person before, me and my sister were amazed and kept trying to find a black man.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- I used to think that if a white person and a black person has a baby it would be mexican.— J
- The first time I saw a black person (I was about 3), I thought he was made of chocolate.— Ronne
- i used to belive that before films were coloured the whole world was black and white— daniel phelps
- I thought black people were black because they drank chocolate milk. — Shelby
- 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