thanks to athena for that report. joining me, the author of how to fight racism, and a black christian collective. thank you so much for being with us this morning, doctor. what are we seeing this morning in these mayoral races? is this the pendulum swinging? i think we re seeing a couple of things. first of all, we have folks who are reading the headlines about a spike in crime rates but, unfortunately, they don t dig much deeper than those headlines. while it is true enough there has been an increase year-over-year in crime rates, they re nowhere near the highs we ve seen in the recent past. overall, crime is still down. we also need to account for the fact that we re living still in a pandemic, especially in 2020. you had a lot of desperate people turning to crime because breaking the law pabecause they thought that was the only way for them to survive. but i think on a deeper level, when it comes to the chance for