Say their names

Pearl Young moved to Buffalo, NY back in 1967 after marrying her husband, Oliver Young Jr. News accounts last night said that she was a Sunday School teacher, a substitute teacher in the public schools, the head of a local food pantry, and for 25 years, a volunteer at her church's soup kitchen.

I never met Pearl Young, but from what I have heard in the last twelve hours or so she was wonderful, the kind of person that everyone loves. Yesterday, her sister dropped her off at the supermarket. It would be the last time Pearl would enter the store. I gunman shot thirteen people in that Buffalo supermarket, ten of them fatally.

Police are investigating this horrible crime, but all evidence indicates that this was a hate crime.  In this predominately Black neighborhood, most of the victims are Black.  Now families are mourning and a  community is reeling from this tragedy, all because of hate. Please don't let this kind of thing keep happening. We need more love. We need to stop the hate.

Please remember the dead. Say their names.

                                                                     

Pearl Young

Roberta A. Drury

Margus D. Morrison

Andre Mackniel

Aaron Salter

Geraldine Talley

Celestine Chaney

Heyward Patterson

Katherine Massey

Ruth Whitfield