When I was really young, perhaps 3 or 4, I believed that black people were called brown (people) instead because they looked more brown to me than black.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- I'm black, so as a child I used to assume that white people pooped peach the way I pooped brown.— Rick
- I USE TO BELIEVE THAT BROWN & BLACK COWS MAKE CHOCOLATE MILK— TINA
- when I was little I used to think that white people had pink poop (i am brown so my poop is brown)— helena muteka
- I used to believe that white people had white poop and that mine was brown because I was brownAnon
- 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