When I was a kid, my older brother told me that black people were made that way on purpose. Like if you had a baby in the summer when you were tan, that baby would be born with a darker, sort of olive skin tone. And then when that baby grew up and had a kid, if it was in the summer and the mother was tan, that baby would be even darker, so of course if a darker-skinned person had a baby in the winter, the skin would be lighter.
Yup, I believed that a good portion of my life.
A childhood belief about skin
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- I used to believe that a baby shower was a tiny bathtub with a showerhead just for the baby.— Amy
- I used to think that if a white person and a black person has a baby it would be mexican.— J
- i used to believe that white skinned people sheaded skin and became black
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