Memes

There were 3 black kids in my neighborhood growing up, all from the same family. Their parents were white. I didn't know what "adopted" meant, so I thought that under certain conditions, white parents could have black kids.

My high school was about 2000 students, and only one of them was black.

I didn't see my first truly black person, skin so dark that it glowed blue under florescent lights, until my folks took us to tour the Smithsonian in DC. I was 10ish? I saw her on the Metro and couldn't stop staring (sorry). Opened my eyes to just how wonderfully diverse people could be.

This is so sweet lol. Goes to show racism is always taught.

When I was 9 My parents took me to toys-r-us to get a GI Joe. I picked the black one which really irritated them “but ur white”?! Yea, no shit.

The Jerk 2: The Unjerkening

I wonder if having absolutely no white friends until I was 6 is why I don't give a shit about race. Everyone I knew back when I was living in San Jose was Mexican, Black or Asian. I have no memories of playing with any other white kids until my family moved to the central valley when I was 5 going on 6.

I think I was like six years old when I talked to someone, and he said no hablo English, and I freaked out, because it was the first time that I encountered someone who spoke a different language.

Years later, Sesame Street would start showing segments in English and Spanish.

My sister saw a black Cabbage Patch kid in Toys R Us and said "Ewww - burnt baby."

I grew up with a TV program that was hosted by a black woman and a gay man - its called Bullerfnis. I never thought about the fact that she was darker. I also went to school with kids who were mixed and had a black parent, but I didn't think about it.

One of my classmates from first to fourth grade was half black. The only thing I considered about her was that I thought it was really cool that she got to go to Brazil sometimes to meet her extended family. She gave me some stickers after one of her trips, with cartoon characters from a Brazilian show and I still have them to this day. I treasured them because they came from the other side of the world. I don't even know why she gave them to me. We weren't super close friends, but we did play together sometimes. Her dad made a traditional Brazilian confectionary for us one time and I thought it was super weird because I had never tasted anything like it before. It wasn't bad, just different.

I think I was 6 years old when I first realized that black people look different from me, lol. There was a parent who came to school one day and he wore dreadlocks and had very colorful clothes from his culture, so he stuck out a bit and that was when in my brain was like "wait, some people are dark?"

Needless to say, I am a bit slow on the uptake sometimes.

When faithful Mormons get their own planet to rule over in the afterlife, they do this. Not many people know this.

It's like the bizarro version of the Mormon story of the Lamanites.

If MJ could do that whole arc in reverse, why should it be impossible?

Reminds me of this song: https://youtu.be/egxzdZ_dUP0?is=lqS7qcixm11mvojY

We knew a few Mormons, quote unquote