My daughter believed that the older you got the darker you got and that is how black people came into being. Her dad's family is Native American, he was dark, his mother darker and his grandmother even darker. When we moved into a new neighborhood with a black nex door neighbor, she kept referring to him as that really old black man. He was probably 40 at the time.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- When I was younger I used to believe that the darker your skin was, the dark your shadow would be.— Mary S.
- I thought that all black people were African-AmericanAnon
- I thought black people were black because they drank chocolate milk. — Shelby
- I used to believe that african american people were black because they ate too much CoCo Puffs— Jessica
- I use to believe Smog and Fog were the same thing on smog was darkerAnon
- When i was a child, i used to believe that when people ate black beans, they became black— Mar'ia Elena