Former Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield Jr., who lost his 86-year-old mother, Ruth Whitfield, when a white gunman, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, massacred 10 Black people in a racist rampage at a Buffalo supermarket, is struggling with the notion of forgiveness.

Dianna Hobbs, president of a prominent Buffalo, New York nonprofit organization wrote a heartfelt tribute to Pearl Young, the 77-year-old woman who was among 10 people shot and killed at a Buffalo supermarket in a racially motivated attack on the afternoon of Saturday, May 14.