“I think the biggest thing is just people don’t always want to see a successful African American male, like myself, who’s well-spoken, educated,” Mitchell told The Undefeated. “Sometimes that’s a threat to people. And she’s expressed that to me. And I’ve started to understand that, for sure, because that is the case. “It’s something that just isn’t everybody’s favorite thing to see. Everybody’s not your biggest fan. And that’s really where her nerves come from. And it’s just a mom loving her son. And at the end of the day, that’s every African American.”