When Brigette Brantley said, "The government gave $1,200 to people to survive on in March. What you thought was gonna happen? They took summer youth away from the youth. What you thought was gonna happen?", her words quickly made her Internet famous.

The live interview with NY1 reporter Ruschell Boone went viral after she spoke with Brantley, who was among the thousands of protesters who marched through Brooklyn on Tuesday, June 2.

"It was like, I was just walking and we just like looked at each other, and it was like, Come, queen. I know you have a story to tell.' And I just told my story as it is. I didn’t expect all of this to happen at all," Brantley said.

Some of her comments were highly controversial, especially when she spoke about some of the looting.

"So you think a lot of this is borne of frustration?" Boone asked in the interview. Brantley said, "Yes, they are sick and tired of being sick and tired. And this is what sick and tired looks like, unfortunately. These are multibillion-dollar corporations that have insurance, so no offense, but they’ll be all right."

When Boone said, "What about some of the mom and pop stores on Fordham Road that are owned by people of color?" Brantley responded, "Hmm. Define owned by people of color, because the banks actually run those businesses."

She went from less than 400 followers on Twitter to 20,000 after a viewer posted the video on social media and many started praising her words. The interview has been watched more than 7-and-a-half-million times on Twitter alone.

She says she doesn't condone looting but she understands the frustration.

"People are tired. We are not asking for too much. We are just asking you to hear us," Brantley said.

Brantley is a former lunch aide who became a social studies teacher in 2011. She was told prior to our interview that her charter school was not renewing her temporary contract, so she's planning to travel the country this summer to speak about racial injustices. She says she wants a better world for her 8-year-old son.

"There are a lot of women in the same situation I am in. We are raising young black men, and we are in fear of our own lives but then also in fear of our son's lives," Brantley said.

She started a GofundMe page to help with the cost of the trips. The goal was $10,000. At last check, it has raised more than five times that.

"The community responded and it's a loud response, so the work has to get done now," said Edwian "Eze" Stokes, Brantley's partner.

Brantley says she plans to use a lot of the money raised to help her community and to bring young people from her Bronx neighborhood along with her.