All lives matter.
Unless you're a Black man checking on your kids in your car in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Then that life gets seven bullets in the back at point blank range.
All lives matter.
Unless you're a Black man jogging down a road in Brunswick, Georgia. Then that life gets two shotgun blasts to the stomach from vigilantes who say you're a robber.
All lives matter.
Unless you're a Black man who fell asleep in your car at the Wendy's drive through in Atlanta. Then that life gets chased down and shot in the back while running away.
All lives matter.
Unless you're a Black woman sleeping in your apartment in Louisville. Then that life ends in a barrage of police gunfire after they batter down your door.
All lives matter.
Unless you're a Black man arrested for allegedly using a counterfeit bill in Minneapolis. Then that life gets kneeled on until there's no air left to breathe.
All lives matter.
Unless it's a life that an individual or a group of individuals or a police department or a judicial system or a legal system or a political system or a governmental institution or an administration or history says doesn't matter.
Then, I guess, it seems that not all lives matter.
Which is why we say Black lives matter.
Some folks need to hear that message over and over again.