Until I was about 8 or 9 I thought that black people had just been burned in a fire and that was what made their skin darker.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- When I was younger I used to believe that the darker your skin was, the dark your shadow would be.— Mary S.
- I used to believe that black olives were made out of whale skin.— Troyson
- i used to believe that white skinned people sheaded skin and became black
— help[help - Burned fish fingers ment the fish was from the black sea.Anon
- I used to ask my dad this: "Dad, are black people made out of chocolate?"— Ai
- When i was little i used to think black people were made out of chocolate.Anon