george zimmerman had just been acquitted of trayvon martin's murder and a was furious and i was grieficken and i went on to social media to commiserate with the people that i love and no. article.licia's she closely post off with "likewise matter." i put a hash tag on it. i said, we have to make a go viral. within the next 24 hours, her and i would be talking about a project that we wanted to create a new one to call it black lives matter. oval to mehdi called alicia saying, i want to be a part of this. i went out develop it and build up the communication of infrastructure soaking go viral. that is the very beginning of black lives matter. it would become a phrase to a hash tag and evolve into a political platform and evolved into what is now a global network with over 40 chapters worldwide. amy: and before this, coming out . so much of the -- it is the personal story you tell and then of course there are the global political implications. but it starts with the tree's --patrisse. >> i was very weird, self-proclaimed weirdo. life.uper excited about i am an artist. i have been to a lot

we know about the impact of the shooting in 2012 and that equals all of george zimmerman the man that shot him, and we know certainly and i do not need to rehearse all of the examples of police shootings whether we are thinking about minneapolis or michael ferguson or michael brown and ferguson mystery. the emergence of black lives matter is certainly part of the narrative. of course then if we move quickly into the present times, the decision, the divisive naturto move the divisivenaturen into the election of donald trump and realit the reality the are all experiencing right now. i will have a comment about that clear there's a lot of stuff in 20 years and what crystallized for me the complexity of the question is it better than the generational nature of it was reflecting on whether what would a 20-year-old say in response to the question so let's imagine that for a moment. let's imagine that you were born in 1997. i'm curious is there anyone here born in 1997? in all of thosand all of those e are a lot of students born in the late '90s. if you were born in 1997 you would be 20th ab

we know about the impact of trayvon martin's shooting in 2012 and the acquittal of george zimmerman, the man who shot him. we know about certainly -- i don't need to rehearse all of the examples of police shootings, whether we are thinking about philando castille in minneapolis or michael ferguson -- mikal brun -- michael brown in ferguson. the "black lives matter" narrative and also the spread of campus activism that was spawned in response to the "black lives matter" and then the election of donald trump and the reality we're all experiencing right now. i'll comment about that later. let me just say that that's a lot of stuff in last 20 years, and what really crystallized for me, the complexity of this question, is it better and the generational nature of it, was reflecting on whether -- what would a 20-year-old say in response to that question? so, let's imagine that for a moment. let's imagine you were born in 1997. i'm curious, anyone here who was been in 1997? maybe not. but i was just speaking at wesleyan university yesterday and spelman college on tuesday, and at all of those

we know about the impact of trayvon martin shooting in 2012, and the acquittal of george zimmerman, a man who shot him. we know about, certainly, and i don't need to rehearse all of the examples of police shootings, whether we think about philando castile in minneapolis or michael ferguson, michael brown in ferguson, missouri, the images black lives matter certainly part of the narrative of the last 20 years, and also the spread of campus activism that was spawned in part in response to black lives matter. and then of course if you move quickly into the present time, the divisive nature of the political election, this season in the fall of 2016, the election of donald trump and the reality that we are all experiencing right now. i'll comment about that later, but let me just say that that's a lot of stuff in the last 20 years. and what really crystallized for me the complexity of this question, is it better and the generational nature of the, was reflecting on whether, what would a 20-year-old say in response to that question? so let's imagine that for a moment. let's imagine you're b

george w. bush and a fox news contributor. charles hurt and democratic strategist robert zimmerman. you look back to that moment and it sorted the funny idea of the celebrities running for political office. i think it was quite forward thinking actually looking back of donald trump to say she would be a heck of a candidate would i. >> exactly. donald trump tapped into something and i'm not certain that oprah winfrey is in the same position. people were very concerned about the change, the rapid change in our country. they were concerned with political elites not listening to them and they rallied behind donald trump and gave him about 46, 47% of the vote in the republican primaries. i'm not certain that oprah winfrey can tap into that same kind of -- tap into a similar vein of enthusiasm other than anti-trump-ism. if this is the best that democrats can do, elections tend to be reactions to the next election. the next election, the best avenue for the democrats is to say he wasn't up for the job, he has not demonstrated the ability to get things done. we cut somebody who has the abil