If All Lives Matter, Why Is This Still Happening?

I am so tired of hearing “All lives matter” in response to the Black Lives Matter movement.  I truly believe all lives matter but apparently that is not the social reality in the country of my birth.  I am not speaking of some so-called third world dictatorship.  I am speaking of the United States, the misnamed land of the free.  Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are the preserve of citizens of European descent.  It is a place where people of African descent are shot while jogging, shot while eating supper in their own apartment, and police extra-judicial killings are tolerated.

The United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent began in 2015 and ends in 2024.  Like many other UN International Decades for…, this one is going largely unnoticed.  Yet, I say this is the perfect time to highlight the need for Euro-North Americans to step up.  It’s time for white people, who claim to be people of good will, who claim they despise racism, who claim they believe in equal rights for all, to put some action into those claims.  It is the work of all who benefit from oppression to put a stop to the oppression because when Black people try, they die.   We need you to care enough to ensure that no unarmed African American’s last words to an unhearing white assailant are “I can’t breathe” or “don’t shoot.” 

“Black Lives Matter” is not a battle cry nor is it an experiential truth.  It is an aspirational wake up call to North American society to transform the aspiration into a lived truth for all People of Colour.

The following is a list of names of unarmed African Americans who were killed by police from 2013 thru 2019.  I ask all people of faith to offer not only prayers for their families, but to make a commitment to work for justice locally and nationally, that is, equality when it come to the social, environmental, economic, health and general well-being of African American people. 

Names of Unarmed African American Killed by Police  2013-2019

Victim's name	Victim's age	Victim's gender
1.    Aaron Bailey	45	Male
2.    Abdul Kamal	30	Male
3.    Adam Ardett Madison	28	Male
4.    Adam Trammell	22	Male
5.    Akai Gurley	28	Male
6.    Albert Davis	23	Male
7.    Alexander Jamar "A.J." Marion	19	Male
8.    Alfred Olango	38	Male
9.    Allen Desdunes	37	Male
10.Alonzo Smith	27	Male
11.Alteria Woods	21	Female
12.Andre Horton	42	Male
13.Andre Larone Murphy Sr.	42	Male
14.Anesson Joseph	28	Male
15.Anthony "Punch" Marcell Green	33	Male
16.Anthony Antonio Ford	27	Male
17.Anthony Ashford	29	Male
18.Anthony Bartley	21	Male
19.Anthony Dwayne Harris	38	Male
20.Anthony Hill	27	Male
21.Antone G. Black Jr.	19	Male
22.Antonio Garcia Jr.	47	Male
23.Antonio Johnson	40	Male
24.Antronie Scott	36	Male
25.Antwon Michael Rose II	17	Male
26.Antwun Shumpert	37	Male
27.Aries Clark	16	Male
28.Armando Frank	42	Male
29.Artago Damon Howard	36	Male
30.Arteair Porter	22	Male
31.Arther McAfee Jr.	61	Male
32.Arthur R. Williams Jr.	33	Male
33.Arthur Walton Jr.	33	Male
34.Arvel Douglas Williams	30	Male
35.Askari Roberts	35	Male
36.Asshams Manley	30	Male
37.Atatiana Jefferson	28	Female
38.Balantine Mbegbu	65	Male
39.Bennie Branch	24	Male
40.Bettie Jones	55	Female
41.Bill Jackson	59	Male
42.Bishar Hassan	31	Male
43.Bobby Gross	35	Male
44.Botham Shem Jean	26	Male
45.Brandon Jones	18	Male
46.Brendon Glenn	29	Male
47.Brian Day	36	Male
48.Brian Easley	33	Male
49.Brian Pickett	26	Male
50.Briatay McDuffie	19	Male
51.Byron Williams	50	Male
52.Calin Devante Roquemore	24	Male
53.Calvin Toney	24	Male
54.Calvon A. Reid	39	Male
55.Cameron Tillman	14	Male
56.Cedric Stanley	35	Male
57.Cedrick Chatman	17	Male
58.Chad Robertson	25	Male
59.Chance David Baker	22	Male
60.Channara Tom Pheap	33	Male
61.Charles A. Baker Jr.	30	Male
62.Charles D. "Chop Chop" Roundtree Jr.	18	Male
63.Charles David Robinson	47	Male
64.Charles K. Goodridge	53	Male
65.Charlin Charles	25	Male
66.Charly Leundeu "Africa" Keunang	43	Male
67.Chinedu Valentine Okobi	36	Male
68.Christian Taylor	19	Male
69.Christopher Alexander Okamoto	21	Male
70.Christopher J. Davis	21	Male
71.Christopher Jones	30	Male
72.Christopher McCorvey	36	Male
73.Christopher Wade	39	Male
74.Christopher Whitfield	31	Male
75.Cimarron Lamar Lamb	33	Male
76.Clifton Armstrong	38	Male
77.Clinton Roebexar Allen	25	Male
78.Corey Levert Tanner	24	Male
79.Corey Mobley	38	Male
80.Cornelius Brown	25	Male
81.Cortez Washington	32	Male
82.Craig Demps	22	Male
83.Cynthia Fields	60	Female
84.Dainell Simmons	29	Male
85.Dajuan Graham	40	Male
86.Dalvin Hollins	19	Male
87.D'Angelo Reyes Stallworth	28	Male
88.Danny Ray Thomas	34	Male
89.Dante Parker	36	Male
90.Darell Richards	19	Male
91.Darrell "Hubbard" Gatewood	47	Male
92.Darrell Banks	47	Male
93.Darrell Lawrence Brown	31	Male
94.Darrien Nathaniel Hunt	22	Male
95.Darrion M. Barnhill	23	Male
96.Darrius Stewart	19	Male
97.Daryll Blair	19	Male
98.Dason Peters	33	Male
99.David Andre Scott	28	Male
100.                 David Felix	24	Male
101.                 David Joseph	17	Male
102.                 DeAndre Lloyd Starks	27	Male
103.                 Deaundre Phillips	24	Male
104.                 Deion Fludd	17	Male
105.                 DeJuan Guillory	27	Male
106.                 Delrawn Small	37	Male
107.                 Dennis Grisgby	35	Male
108.                 Dennis Plowden	25	Male
109.                 Denzel Brown	21	Male
110.                 Deomain Hayman	28	Male
111.                 DeOntre L. Dorsey	32	Male
112.                 Deravis Rogers	22	Male
113.                 DeRicco Devante Holden	24	Male
114.                 D'ettrick Griffin	18	Male
115.                 Devin Howell	30	Male
116.                 DeWayne Watkins	74	Male
117.                 Dewboy Lister	55	Male
118.                 Dominic Hutchinson	30	Male
119.                 Dominique "Nonny" Silva	24	Male
120.                 Dominique Clayton	32	Female
121.                 Dominique Franklin Jr.	23	Male
122.                 Donald "Dontay" Ivy	39	Male
123.                 Donnell Thompson Jr.	27	Male
124.                 Donovan Thomas	22	Male
125.                 Dustin Keith Glover	27	Male
126.                 Dylan Samuel-Peters	1	Male
127.                 Dyzhawn L. Perkins	19	Male
128.                 Elijah Glay	39	Male
129.                 Emanuel Jean-Baptiste	29	Male
130.                 Eric Courtney Harris	44	Male
131.                 Eric Garner	43	Male
132.                 Eric Reason	38	Male
133.                 Eric Ricks	30	Male
134.                 Ernest Satterwhite	68	Male
135.                 Ervin Edwards	38	Male
136.                 Eugene Williams	38	Male
137.                 Euree Lee Martin	58	Male
138.                 Ezell Ford	25	Male
139.                 Felix Kumi	61	Male
140.                 Frank Shephard III	41	Male
141.                 Fred Bradford Jr.	51	Male
142.                 Freddie Blue	20	Male
143.                 George Harvey	39	Male
144.                 George Mann	53	Male
145.                 George Robinson	62	Male
146.                 George V. King	19	Male
147.                 Geraldine Townsend	72	Female
148.                 Gregory Lewis Towns Jr	24	Male
149.                 Hallis Kinsey	26	Male
150.                 Herbert Gilbert	37	Male
151.                 Howard Wallace Bowe Jr.	34	Male
152.                 India Kager	28	Female
153.                 India M. Beaty	25	Female
154.                 Iretha Lilly	37	Female
155.                 Isaiah Lewis	17	Male
156.                 Jacorey Calhoun	23	Male
157.                 Jamar Clark	24	Male
158.                 James Carney III	48	Male
159.                 James Leatherwood	23	Male
160.                 Jason Moland	29	Male
161.                 Jayvis Benjamin	20	Male
162.                 Jean Pedro Pierre	42	Male
163.                 Jeffery B. Lilly Jr.	22	Male
164.                 Jeffrey Ragland	50	Male
165.                 Jerame C. Reid	36	Male
166.                 Jeremey Lake	19	Male
167.                 Jeremy Lett	28	Male
168.                 Jermaine Darden	34	Male
169.                 Jermaine McBean	33	Male
170.                 Jerome Keith Allen	22	Male
171.                 Jerry Brown	41	Male
172.                 Jesse Jesus Quinton	35	Male
173.                 Jessica Williams	29	Female
174.                 Jimmie Montel Sanders	33	Male
175.                 Jimmy Atchison	21	Male
176.                 John H. Crawford III	22	Male
177.                 John T. Wilson III	22	Male
178.                 Jonathan A. Ferrell	24	Male
179.                 Jonathan Sanders	39	Male
180.                 Jordan Baker	26	Male
181.                 Jordan Edwards	15	Male
182.                 Jordan Michael Griffin	18	Male
183.                 Joshua Terrell Crawford	25	Male
184.                 Joshua Wayne Harvey	25	Male
185.                 JR Williams	38	Male
186.                 Juan Markee Jones	25	Male
187.                 Juan May	45	Male
188.                 Julian Dawkins	22	Male
189.                 Julius "Jules" Graves	43	Male
190.                 Junior Prosper	31	Male
191.                 Justin Griffin	25	Male
192.                 Kaldrick Donald	24	Male
193.                 Keara Crowder	29	Female
194.                 Keita O'Neil	42	Male
195.                 Keith Childress	23	Male
196.                 Keith Harrison McLeod	19	Male
197.                 Kendall Alexander	34	Male
198.                 Kendra Diggs	37	Female
199.                 Kendrick Brown	18	Male
200.                 Kenneth Johnson	25	Male
201.                 Keoshia L. Hill	28	Female
202.                 Kevin Bajoie	32	Male
203.                 Kevin Bruce Mason	57	Male
204.                 Kevin Hicks	44	Male
205.                 Kevin Higgenbotham	47	Male
206.                 Kevin Leroy Beasley Jr.	23	Male
207.                 Kevin Matthews	35	Male
208.                 Kionte DeShaun Spencer	18	Male
209.                 Kris Jackson	22	Male
210.                 Lamont Perry	32	Male
211.                 Lamontez Jones	39	Male
212.                 Lana Morris	46	Female
213.                 Larry Eugene Jackson Jr.	32	Male
214.                 Lashano J. Gilbert	31	Male
215.                 Lavall Hall	25	Male
216.                 Lavante Biggs	21	Male
217.                 Lavon King	20	Male
218.                 Lawrence Hawkins	56	Male
219.                 Leroy Browning	30	Male
220.                 Leslie Sapp III	47	Male
221.                 Levon Leroy Love	44	Male
222.                 Levonia Riggins	22	Male
223.                 Lionel Gibson	21	Male
224.                 Lorenzo Antoine Cruz	23	Male
225.                 Mahlon Edward Summerour	63	Male
226.                 Marc Brandon Davis	34	Male
227.                 Marcus McVae	34	Male
228.                 Marcus-David L. Peters	24	Male
229.                 Mario Clark	31	Male
230.                 Mark Anthony Blocker	20	Male
231.                 Mark Roshawn Adkins	54	Male
232.                 Marlon Brown	38	Male
233.                 Marlon Horton	28	Male
234.                 Marlon Lewis	37	Male
235.                 Marlon S. Woodstock	38	Male
236.                 Marquez Warren	19	Male
237.                 Marzues Scott	35	Male
238.                 Maurice Holly	55	Male
239.                 Micah Anthony Key	24	Male
240.                 Michael Brown	18	Male
241.                 Michael Eugene Wilson Jr.	27	Male
242.                 Michael Lorenzo Dean	28	Male
243.                 Michael Noel	32	Male
244.                 Michael Ricardo Minor	38	Male
245.                 Miguel Espinal	36	Male
246.                 Montez Dewayne Hambric	26	Male
247.                 Montrell Moss	23	Male
248.                 Muhammad Abdul Muhaymin	43	Male
249.                 Naeschylus Vinzant	37	Male
250.                 Name withheld by police	25	Male
251.                 Name withheld by police	40s	Male
252.                 Name withheld by police	Unknown	Male
253.                 Nana Adomako	45	Male
254.                 Natasha McKenna	37	Female
255.                 Nathaniel Pickett	29	Male
256.                 Nicholas Walker	31	Male
257.                 Norman Cooper	33	Male
258.                 Oliver Jarrod Gregoire	26	Male
259.                 Ollie Lee Brooks	64	Male
260.                 Paterson Brown Jr.	18	Male
261.                 Patricia Spivey	52	Female
262.                 Paul Gaston	37	Male
263.                 Peter John	36	Male
264.                 Peter William Gaines	37	Male
265.                 Phillip White	32	Male
266.                 Quanice Derrick Hayes	17	Male
267.                 Quintine Barksdale	43	Male
268.                 Raphael Thomas	29	Male
269.                 Rashaun Washington	37	Male
270.                 Raynard Burton	19	Male
271.                 Rayshaun Cole	30	Male
272.                 Reginald L. Moore Sr.	44	Male
273.                 Reginald Williams Jr.	29	Male
274.                 Richard Gregory Davis	50	Male
275.                 Richard Perkins	39	Male
276.                 Ricky Deangelo Hinkle	47	Male
277.                 Ritchie Lee Harbison	62	Male
278.                 Robert Dentmond	16	Male
279.                 Robert Lawrence White	41	Male
280.                 Roderick Ronall Taylor	42	Male
281.                 Ronell Foster	32	Male
282.                 Ronnie Ledesma Jr.	39	Male
283.                 Ross Anthony	25	Male
284.                 Roy Lee Richards	46	Male
285.                 Rumain Brisbon	34	Male
286.                 Ryan L. Stokes	24	Male
287.                 Ryan Twyman	24	Male
288.                 Sabin Marcus Jones	45	Male
289.                 Salvado Ellswood	36	Male
290.                 Samuel Dubose	43	Male
291.                 Sherida Davis	38	Female
292.                 Sherman Evans	63	Male
293.                 Spencer McCain	41	Male
294.                 Stephen Gayle	40	Male
295.                 Stephen Murray	52	Male
296.                 Stephon Clark	23	Male
297.                 Tamir E. Rice	12	Male
298.                 Tanisha N. Anderson	37	Female
299.                 Tashii S. Brown	40	Male
300.                 Tawon Boyd	21	Male
301.                 Terence Crutcher	40	Male
302.                 Terrance Moxley	29	Male
303.                 Terry Price	41	Male
304.                 Thomas Allen Jr.	34	Male
305.                 Thomas Lane	37	Male
306.                 Thomas Williams	34	Male
307.                 Thomas Yatsko	21	Male
308.                 Tiano Meton	25	Male
309.                 Tiara Thomas	30	Female
310.                 Tommy J. Yancy Jr.	32	Male
311.                 Tony Terrell Robinson	19	Male
312.                 Torrey Lamar Robinson	35	Male
313.                 Tracy Clyde	42	Male
314.                 Treon "Tree" Johnson	27	Male
315.                 Trey Ta'Quan Pringle Sr.	24	Male
316.                 Troy Robinson	32	Male
317.                 Tyre King	13	Male
318.                 Tyrone Davis	43	Male
319.                 Tyrone West	44	Male
320.                 Vernell Bing Jr	22	Male
321.                 Vernicia Woodard	26	Female
322.                 Victo Larosa III	23	Male
323.                 Walter Scott	50	Male
324.                 Warren Ragudo	34	Male
325.                 Wayne Wheeler	41	Male
326.                 Wendell Celestine Jr.	37	Male
327.                 William Alfred Harvey III	57	Male
328.                 William Chapman	18	Male
329.                 William Matthew Holmes	24	Male
330.                 William Taylor	32	Male
331.                 Willie James Sams	21	Male
332.                 Willie James Williams	27	Male
333.                 Willie Lee Bingham Jr.	20	Male
334.                 Willie Neall Harden	25	Male
335.                 Xavier Tyrell Johnson	31	Male
336.                 Yvette Smith	47	Female

Ahmaud Arbery, murdered by retired law officer, son and another
February 23, 2020

George Floyd, murdered by police officer as other officers look on
May 25, 2020.