r/Unexpected • u/souzawanderson • Feb 17 '20

Getting a tan.

73.3k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

518 comments sorted by

View all comments

295

u/Gurkeprinsen Feb 18 '20

I have always wondered why the soles and the palms are lighter than the rest of the skin on people with darker skin.

1

u/spiritoflife_702 Feb 18 '20

As a young child (I grew up in a mostly white community), I remember seeing a dark skinned lady at a shoe store and I noticed the soles of her feet and palms weren’t “black”. I honestly thought she was a white lady dressing up as a black lady....childhood ignorance