There's never been a question of that in this country.  More like "white lives matter ONLY."  That's why an intoxicated white teenager can steal daddy's minivan, t-bone a car and kill a 23 year-old Native Alaskan mother of two from Bethel and get eight months for it.  The judge thought the driver "could be rehabilitated".  Translation: he was white and his victim wasn't.  That kid is out of jail now.  The young Native woman is still dead.