00:00Can you tell me what you said to her when you first met her, just as I could have done it?
00:04Hi, me. I'm glad to meet myself.
00:07Finally, I know me.
00:09I was like, mm-hmm.
00:11I want you to come work for me.
00:13On your campaign?
00:14Or is that too bourgeois for you?
00:17She is me.
00:17If you look at those pictures from the day, and your cheekbones, and the whole nine yards, hair.
00:22Whoever casted this did a great job.
00:25And her spirit, she's making me remember.
00:28Like, whoa, I can't even believe I was that young.
00:33Doing all this stuff.
00:35I want to be part of something.
00:37I am barely 25, and I am tired of the way things are.
00:40I still stayed in school, you know, and worked with the Black Panther Party.
00:44But so much of my life during that time that she was running for president was Shirley Chisholm.
00:50Register to vote. Be a part of the process.
00:53Inviting Shirley to come speak at the Mills College, your involvement with the Black Panthers,
00:57and to be able to ask, well, how did you feel, and what did you think, and what was your motivation, that's everything.
01:02You get the chance to ask them why.
01:04Why was this so important?
01:05What was it about Shirley that made you essentially drop everything?
01:08I didn't see this as historic.
01:10I just said, yeah, first Black woman elected to Congress, yeah, she should run for president.
01:14And who better?
01:15And I'm going to help her win.
01:16Right.
01:16She's articulate and smart and persuasive and all of these things.
01:21Why wouldn't you want that person to represent you?
01:23I believe that we are intelligent enough to recognize the talent, energy, and dedication
01:29which all Americans, including women and minorities, have to offer.
01:35They weren't ready for a Black woman to be so bold and to speak her truth.
01:40And they weren't ready for her to say, if you don't have a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
01:44I just don't think they were ready for that.
01:46Shirley opened that door.
01:47She really did.
01:48The process doesn't exist in politics for Black women.
01:51You're different.
01:53I saw what needed to be done, and I did it.
01:56Shirley Chisholm, she was herself.
01:57She didn't have any filters.
01:59Sometimes I find myself nuancing.
02:01I say, wait a minute, Shirley Chisholm wouldn't do that.
02:03She'd just speak truth to power.
02:05I mean, and that's what it's about.
02:06Every voice deserves to be heard.
02:09Not just some people, all of the people.
02:12Write the hell on.
02:13I think it's more important now, obviously, to speak truth to power, but to also use the
02:17past in order to guide us to where it is that we ultimately would like to be.
02:21Every time I learn something new about a stance that you take currently, it's like, that's it.
02:27That's the spirit of Shirley.
02:28Like, just going and going and going.
02:31I can offer you the opportunity to make a difference.
02:35Okay.
02:37Okay.
02:38With Christina, me knowing her and knowing that she understands all this gives me, and
02:43I know it's going to give everybody who sees this film a lot of hope that Black women lead,
02:48that younger Black women are going to save the world.
02:51Listen, I'm with it.
02:52I'm with it.
02:53Bye.
02:53Bye.
02:53Bye.
03:04Bye.
03:04Bye.
03:05Bye.
03:05Bye.
03:06Bye.
03:07Bye.
03:16Bye.
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