This is horrible, but...when I was a little kid and I was learning about the civil rights movement in elementary school, I assumed that the "Brown" in Brown v. Board of Education signified brown skin, and that this brown-skinned person was speaking on behalf of all brown-skinned people! It made sense at the time...
A childhood belief about history
others believed things like this
- My mom always used to tell me that brown eggs came from brown chickens.— Taylor
- 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
- when i was little, i ues to think the lil brown dots on ur skin were chocolate so i started licking them... — lil miz shorty
- I used to believe that brown cows made chocolate milk — Simone
- I used to believe that if white people would turn brown in the sun then brown people would turn white.Anon