When I was 5 years old, our housekeeper, Maddie, missed a week of work after she suffered a severe laceration to leg by walking through a sliding glass door. When she came back, she had a huge gauze bandage on the leg with a huge, ugly brown stain that she told me was dried blood. Little scientist that I was, I deduced that black people were “black” because their blood was brown! Of course, I later learned blood turns brown after it dries, but, hey! I was 5.
A childhood belief about appearance
others believed things like this
- when i was litte
I used to believe that white people had white blood and black people had black blood.Anon - I USE TO BELIEVE THAT BROWN & BLACK COWS MAKE CHOCOLATE MILK— TINA
- I'm black, so as a child I used to assume that white people pooped peach the way I pooped brown.— Rick
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- 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