outside like they might be racially motivated crimes. >> the naacp before my father, 112 years ago, it was the backdrop of a lynching happening once a day. we recognized that local communities and law enforcement were participating in these lynchings and were not being held accountable. so we were advocating for the federal government to go into local jurisdictions to investigate, prosecute, and convict those causing harm to citizens. so, yes, this is the proper role for the federal government to play. it is the role that naacp advocated for from our founding, and it's important that when mob violence, when vigilante justice is held illegally, we must, we must have a system to hold people accountable and not be persuaded by local politics or state partisanship. >> derek, good to see you again. thank you for spending time wito us.fo