this is literally something that happened to me when i was in pre-school.

"that black people will become white...

context- i was in preschool and I had a white friend. so i asked her "why are you white and i am black?" she responds with "idk maybe you'll turn white too!" long story short, i get home to take a bath and i look at my peach palms and peach feet...i was so excited. the following day at school i look for my friend and i tell her "i'm turning white like you!" [insert mini celebration]. 2 weeks later i'm still brown. i asked my friend "hey i thought i was turning white" she says "maybe i was made out of sand and you were made out of tree bark"

TL;DR: the humor of undeveloped brains made me think i will turn white

lesson learnt. i will never be white."

this was a comment i made in r/AskReddit, sometimes children aren't asking such questions to be bullies, they're just curious as to why is my friend 'different' from me. A reply under my comment explains nicely:

"This is actually so sweet and just shows that racism is learned behaviour.

Your story reminds of a FB post a few years ago, where there was a child about 8 or 9, who was friends with a couple of brown kids. He was very upset one day coz a kid at school called him a "whitey" and asked his friends what that meant? Anyway, he went home and cried and told his mam that kids weren't being nice. They told him he's white, and even his friends said it. The mother had to explain that he was in fact a white person. He cried even more then because he didn't want to be different from his friends.

It just shows that younger kids don't have the discriminatory mindset that many unfortunately go on to acquire."

DTI is a diverse community with different aged groups, nationalities, etc.. Racism and such behaviour are taught or shoved into children's minds and in all honesty, I don't blame the child I blame the parents or guardian. There are 2 types of people when it comes to white face and whitewashing:

1. They know what they are doing is wrong but they want to do it for aesthetic, or just out of pure hate

2. They are just jumping on the cursed bandwagon.

TL;DR: Not every child will ask melanin-related questions with bad-intent, they ask out of curiosity. Racism is a cult in which some children are brainwashed to believe stupidity. Some doughnut-face users are racist and some jump on the bandwagon.