Seatvet said she asked herself, How have I lived 26 years and I never made it personal? I will never know what it s like to live in that kind of fear. But just to humanize it for the first time, that was the change for me.
When Seatvet contacted WIBCA, her honesty led Mitchell to open up about her own feelings about George Floyd s death. I started to think about when I heard him ask for his mother, who was no longer alive, and so I kept on thinking about that and I became very emotional, Mitchell said. I don t have white people in my close circle. And never mind being vulnerable. That doesn t happen.