When I was little, I had two close black friends whose adoptive parents were a white lesbian couple. I also had two black cousins that my white aunt and uncle adopted. So when I was 5 or 6, I didn't know any black kids who lived with their birth parents. One day my parents were watching a movie and I walked in during a scene where a black woman was crying and saying "They're going to take my baby away from me". So, using what was apparently good logic at the time, I assumed that the U.S. government forced black people to give up their babies to white people. I finally got corrected when we were learning about Martin Luther King in 2nd grade and I raised my hand and asked why no one protested the law about blacks not being allowed to have babies. She gave me a pretty strange look for a while, there.
A childhood belief about family
others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I thought that when my parents were kids, the world was black and white and had no color...— KKM
- I thought that old movies were black and white because the world was black and white then. — K
- When I was little I used to believe that black people saw in black and white. — Chelsea
- I used to think that the old days were actually black and white because of the old black and white pictures.— Leigh Taylor
- when i was litte
I used to believe that white people had white blood and black people had black blood.Anon - When I was little I thought that black babies who were breast fed got chocoate instead of white milk.— Susan