I was never racist but I remember when I was like 5 I went to South Africa on vacation with my parents and the first time I saw a black man I was so excited and pointed at him and told my parents "Look he looks like a gorilla " and they told me to shut up because gorilla is pronounced the same in my mother language as it is in english.
Literally never. I grew up in NY which is very racially diverse and was around people of different races/backgrounds my whole life so I never even thought of something like that.
Only to the extent that everyone is institutionally racist. There's a lot of prejudices (not just race) that I had to sort out as I got older but I never spoke out on them.
Mostly agaisnt native peruvians thanks to my family and to the society i live.
Towards other races i was kind of curious like i used to say omg "look mom he has brown skin, he's a brownie !" or "why does that boy has yellow hair, is he goku?" But i was like 5-6 so its kinda justified
I remember when I was like 4 or 5 I asked my dad what "normal" people were called. I cottoned on to the fact that there were Chinese people, Indian people, black people, etc. and I wanted to know if "normal people" had a name
The most I ever did was question why black people could have something like a BET awards. Also I was confused as to why only black people people could say the N word if it's now considered a synonym for "friend" , but that was just because I went to one of the most diverse high schools in the US and every single PoC called each other that. A black person in my school only got offended if a white person used it so I thought it was like that everywhere. Personally, I've never used it though and understand the issue much better now.
I also told a "What is the difference between a pizza and a black man?" joke before and got into a hella lot of trouble in year 7. How cringey. Azealia would hate me