When I was about 6, We had only a couple of black people in our neighborhood, so when we visited another state where family members had many black friends, I thought their very light palms were some kind of an affliction, like a skin disease or an injury to their palms.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that white skinned people sheaded skin and became black
— help[help - 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 believe that black wood ear
came from the skin of the bats— JULIE - I used to believe that black olives were made out of whale skin.— Troyson