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For jogging while black. and these parents join the fraternity that no parent want to be a member of, and with such dignity, they stood up for ahmad, to say that ahmad's life mattered. >> yes, yes. >> that ahmad arbery will be in the history books, not only for the state of georgia but for the united states of america. >> thank, god. >> wanda, marcus, i believe that this is the first time in the state of georgia's history where there has been a conviction for a federal hate crime, and you all did that, yes, sir.

How do you move forward from here, sir? >> ooh, lord, i just give the glory to god. and the whole team that rallied around us and helped us get justice for ahmaud. it just feels so good that we know he didn't just die in vain, and his name will always be remembered. >> marcus, ben, thank you both. i appreciate you joining. >> thank you, don. it was historic. thank you. >> thank you and be well. >> civil rights leaders applauding today's verdict. attorney general on the verge of tears talking about it. what this means in the fight for equal justice. we'll talk about that next. olay body wash hy...

Death because how he was killed, you know what i'm saying, it was bitter but it was sweet, like you say. one thing about it, we got justice for ahmaud. we have to deal with that. sisters and brothers and aunts and the rest of our life because we ain't going to see him no more. >> were you worried that this might not have been the outcome? >> you know, no, sir, i wasn't worried at all. because the god i praise, he always tell me the victory was won. >> how you are feeling about the justice department now, marcus? >> we still have a lot of work to do with it. but you know, it just -- don, you ju...

Trayvon's mother, sabrina fulton, allison and all the way up, michael brown's mother leslie. but obviously, i want to uphold these black fathers too, like trayvon's father tracy martin, certainly amir locke's father andre, and then certainly marcus arbery. it's only right, don lemon, we stand up together in unity and fight for our children. >> and marcus, i appreciate you joining us. and what you've done and ben is right on about the fathers stepping up as well. i know this must be bittersweet for you right now because it doesn't bring your son back. what was it like hearing that verdict read ...

They always tell us. but race was the motivating -- for killing unjustly, we need to have it documented and have two bites of the apple. one in the state level and another on the federal level. and so i think this was historic for wanda and marcus. it was historic for georgia. but most important, it was historic for america and our children. >> it's interesting because people, you know, like to hide their racism. they try to pretend it doesn't exist. ben, the jury was asked to ignore all of the text messages, right, all of the whatever the social media and everything. all of these racist messa...