When my younger sister sophie was about 2 she couldn't work out why black people where a different colour than her so come to the conclusion that they where made out of chocolate, It could be embarrasing sometimes when we would walk down the street and she would point and shout "Look its a chocolate daddy" to any black man or "chocolate mummy" for woman.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- I used to ask my dad this: "Dad, are black people made out of chocolate?"— Ai
- When i was little i used to think black people were made out of chocolate.Anon
- 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
- I used to believe that black people were white people dipped in Chocolate. That's what my dad told me...— Steve
- Chocolate, they say, rots your teeth. I believed if you drank chocolate milk, your bones would be brown.— Dellio