skin

i didnt really understand different races when i was little, and when we were in the car, i saw a black person and was amazed and told everyone in there i saw a brown coloured man. my brother who was 5 years older, went on to say hed seen a whole black person before, me and my sister were amazed and kept trying to find a black man.

iwanttobegerman

My grandmother is big. When I was little, I was in the bathroom with her when she was going to the bathroom. I looked at her leg, and said, "that looks like bread" (her cellulite) I thought it was crumbs of bread inside her body!

don't want to embarass anyone

i use to think when i was like 5 (12 now)
that finger nails were hard skin!!lmfao♥

Mystery Chick (i know ur wondering

When I first saw a black person I screamed and thought that the baby was sun-burned. I was only 3.
when my mum was 6 she used to think black people were black because they weren't clean enough

Opps

I'm hispanic. All my family has very light skin (like white people). Well I was the darkest (and I'm not very dark). I used to think if I ate chocolate I would get darker. Need less to say I didn't eat chocolate not even chocolate milk, but I did try to drink plenty of milk, I figured I will get lighter or stay where I was. I'm lighter now in my 20s. and I still don't eat chocolate.

R.S.

I was told by my mother when I was very young that I wasn't allowed to drink coffee because it would make you turn black (this was back in the day when being prejudice was very common. I never could figure out how babies got black.

Susan

Black men were actually roasted

Ant

my friends big brother told me that black people tasted of chocolate and white people tasted of vanilla, like ice cream.

Anon

The first time I saw a black guy I asked my mom why he looked like that, was it because he got burnt?

Lee

I used to believe, when I was 4ish that if you touched a black person, the blackness would 'rub off' onto you're skin, and visa versa.

freind

every mole you have is marking a lie

loo loo pup

when i was little, when my tooth fell out, i thought if i peeled back my gum, there would be like green flannel underneath. i also thought that when i got an ulcer it was a little football stuck in my mouth..

iwanttobegerman

When I was about 6, We had only a couple of black people in our neighborhood, so when we visited another state where family members had many black friends, I thought their very light palms were some kind of an affliction, like a skin disease or an injury to their palms.

Rootie

i used to believe that colored people were burnt in gods oven

james

When I was little, I thought bruises were sacks of pain underneath the skin, and the only way to get rid of them was to release all the pain. To release the pain, I pressed on my bruises. I had a lot of bruises.

Rae

Growing up in the rural South there was a great deal of rascism. My mom told my sister that if she ate the pecans that still had the green out shell, they would make her turn into an african-american. Defiantly my sis kept playing with the green pecans from the big tree. That night, when she went to take her bath, the oils from the pecans and the water had a chemical reaction and her skin started turning brownish. In the midst of blood curling screams my mom ran to the bathroom to see what was wrong and there sat my sis hysterically covered in tears in the tub with black fingers. She never ate pecans again.

JRG

My friend is Arabic, and when she was young she used to believe she was white because she knew she wasn't black and she thought those were the only kinds of people.

friend of a friend

i used to think black people get black if they jump into a dirty swimming pool

gary

my grandmothers face was covered with freckles which she hated. Some ridiculous relative told her when she was about 5 if she bit them off from the inside they would fall off her face. She ended up in hospital with horribly infected ulcers in her cheeks and has badly stained teeth from the antibiotics they gave her. His next advise was to scratch them off with a wire brush...you would think she would have learned by them.

Anon

My little brother thinks Dave Matthews is black. We've argued about this many times and he has been shown pictures of him, but he thinks I'm just trying to trick him.

Anon