“No one held you back from standing up and telling that room of people at Powell’s who you really were and what your story really was,” she said. “No one. You chose to walk away. This isn’t a judgment on that choice. This is me pointing it out. You did that. You let Harlowe’s narrative be the air people breathed about you. This isn’t about Harlowe or her whiteness; this is about choice. What choice will you make next time when someone says something like that about you? Will you walk away? Or demand your voice be heard? Will you speak your truth, Juliet? I mean, why did you even come here?”
