Magazine article “I Can’t Breathe Until Everyone Can Breathe,” by Gerald Mitchell. Writing Prompt: Like Gerald Mitchell, dig deep to identify and explain how you personally can treat people more justly. The policemen had killed the black man, even though they had full control of the situation. In each case it was a black man on the bottom and a white man on the top. In the essay, “I Can’t Breathe Until Everyone Can Breathe,” Gerald Mitchell claims we need to “turn things up” to stop these injustices.