When I was about 6 I asked my mother why I wasn't grey. We were learning about mixing secondary colors at school using Tempera paint. I reasoned since she was white and Dad was black that I should be grey. I wondered if there were something they weren't telling me about my parentage. She explained that people aren't really black or white that's just what they call them. I was very doubtful. This still makes no sense to me.
A childhood belief about appearance
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that in old times the world was grey (black and white, i got the idea from old movies) — Bryce
- I thought that old movies were black and white because the world was black and white then. — K
- My sister once asked her mother why she didn't paint her black....Anon
- 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 used to believe that black people saw in black and white. — Chelsea