When I was like 6 I went to a gym/club with my mom. There were these tanning booths, and I asked what they were, and my mom told me they made people dark- I don't remember if she said dark, or black, but I always thought after that that there was a machine someone could go in if they wanted to turn black.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- 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
- 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
- When I was little my dad told me that if you drank too much coffee it would make your skin turn black. Anon