At some point between the ages of 3 and 6, when I first learned about slavery, I thought that black people were still slaves. This belief was compounded by the fact that I live in a suburban Minnesota neighborhood where there were basically no black people to tell me I was wrong. Fortunately, I found out when I told my mom that I thought that making black people be slaves was mean, and that they should stop. She set the story straight before I ran into any trouble, because Minnesota is so white that the only black people I had ever seen at that point were on television. I was kinda embarassed, seeing as how I just asked her if she remembered back when the dinosaurs were still around.
A childhood belief about history
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that before color television, people only saw in black an white.— CD
- I thought black people were black because they drank chocolate milk. — Shelby
- When I was little I used to believe that black people saw in black and white. — Chelsea
- 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 - When i was a child, i used to believe that when people ate black beans, they became black— Mar'ia Elena