As a kid, you didn't even notice races and thought your friends just had different tans, amirite?

I was old enough to have race explained to me before I ever met anyone with a different skin colour.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I am biracial so I grew up with a white mother and a black father. I couldn't really tell the difference at all until I got into school and people questioned me.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't think I did, I just noticed people had different skin color. I just remember not realizing it was genetic, and wondering why no one in my family was black...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Goes to show that race is a social construct

by Anonymous 13 years ago

an artificial status ...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I noticed, I just didn't know any of the stereotypes assoctiated with each race.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I used to think black people had some sorta illness...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

D:

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I know, I feel so bad that I thought that...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

lol when i was like 4, there was a black kid in my preschool and i got really confused why my hair wasn't like his :P

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My friend really is/was naturally darker than me, and when we were little, his mom and mine were like Are you gonna marry him one day? I was like no, and pointed to my skin like it was a sin. *I'm not like that today just for the record

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh no, the childhood is the only time in which you can even ignore all of these beliefs forced onto us, if you thought that YOURSELF as a kid, that's just awful.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I know it sounds horrible. I just posted it because I did notice that he was different from me when I was little.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My best friend since 1st grade is black and, I'm not even lying, I really didn't even notice she was black until like 7th grade. lol No, I noticed it but it was never that important so...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I remember in third grade our teacher had to explain racism to us.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

well... not really. we were ALL tan. i went to an all-Indonesian kindergarten that time (but i learned 2 tell the locals from the foreigners) it was until middle school that we have different races

by Anonymous 13 years ago

When I was little I thought the only two races where black and white. I didn't know there where such things as hispanic, asain, etc.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh that too, when you get older than not realizing races at all, but not old enough to actually differentiate between so many. I thought Asian people were just white with funny eyes, and Hispanic looked completely white, only sometimes tanner than others.

by Anonymous 13 years ago