MeToo founder Tarana Burke on why the movement continues.
Burke had prepared herself for the possibility that Weinstein, who was acquitted of charges for predatory sexual assault and of rape in the first degree, would walk out of the courtroom a free man.
"I wasn't disappointed in the sense that I thought that that was going to happen," she told"Good Morning America.""I knew, going in, when you look at the charges, the time that had passed and all these different circumstances, I knew it was going to be difficult." "Being able to scale up the work that we started in small grassroots communities and then the urban communities in Philadelphia -- and rural communities and Alabama, to national and international levels -- is just incredible," she said.
"So many women reached out to me through social media, email and other ways to say this verdict felt like a personal victory for them because they won't ever see their day in court, because they'll never face their perpetrator," Burke said."Those are people that we can't forget."
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