For the Washington Post magazine, my report on how local third-graders see the world, everything from Donald Trump to vividly experienced racism to farts and dinosaurs:

Kristian Wiley, DC Scholars: Back in the day they used to hit us, used to hit black people with the rope, and now they don’t.

Jakara Baccous, DC Scholars: Back in the day ... they had whips and they beat the black man with the whips so badly and they threw him into the pond.

Malaya Paulk, Robert R. Gray: In slavery they used to hang black people up on the trees with a rope, and white folks, they liked that because they didn’t want black people in their neighborhood. That’s why Martin Luther King Jr. had the right to fight.

Illo by Adam Hayes for the Washington Post.