Shirley

666 00:38:49,751 --> 00:38:51,126 I don't support busing. 667 00:38:51,209 --> 00:38:54,793 It's an artificial solution to the segregation problem. 668 00:38:54,876 --> 00:38:57,251 Open housing is the real answer. 669 00:38:57,334 --> 00:38:59,584 But as long as the problem exists, 670 00:38:59,668 --> 00:39:02,126 an artificial solution is better than none at all. 671 00:39:02,209 --> 00:39:05,084 [newsman] <i>One of the most active candidates of campaign '72</i> 672 00:39:05,168 --> 00:39:07,126 <i>is Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn.</i> 673 00:39:07,209 --> 00:39:08,126 I love you, Shirley! 674 00:39:08,209 --> 00:39:10,459 I don't need your love, darling. I need your vote. 675 00:39:10,543 --> 00:39:13,168 I'm gonna vote for you. You or George Wallace. 676 00:39:13,251 --> 00:39:14,751 All right. Well... 677 00:39:14,834 --> 00:39:17,793 I'll say this. Shirley Chisholm is the only other candidate 678 00:39:17,876 --> 00:39:21,043 who says the same thing in the South that she says in the North. 679 00:39:21,543 --> 00:39:24,459 [man 1] <i>Shirley Chisholm will never be president.</i> 680 00:39:24,543 --> 00:39:26,376 <i>This is America.</i> 681 00:39:26,459 --> 00:39:28,626 {\an8}[man 2] <i>That woman needs to get out of the race.</i> 682 00:39:28,709 --> 00:39:31,334 {\an8}[man 3] <i>She bristles at the suggestion she step aside,</i> 683 00:39:31,418 --> 00:39:34,918 <i>lest she draw liberal votes away from other presidential contenders.</i> 684 00:39:35,501 --> 00:39:38,793 [Shirley] <i>Why is it that it has to always be white males, white males,</i> 685 00:39:38,876 --> 00:39:40,918 <i>white males, white males, white males?</i> 686 00:39:41,001 --> 00:39:42,376 [cheering] 687 00:39:43,418 --> 00:39:47,376 [Shirley] <i>If you can't support me, or you can't endorse me,</i> 688 00:39:47,459 --> 00:39:48,793 <i>get out of my way.</i> 689 00:39:48,876 --> 00:39:51,084 <i>You do your thing, and let me do mine.</i> 690 00:39:51,168 --> 00:39:54,793 You go to hell, you Black bitch! You fucking Black bitch! I'll kill you! 691 00:39:54,876 --> 00:39:57,501 You fucking Black bitch! I'll fuckin' kill you! 692 00:39:57,584 --> 00:40:00,209 [echo fades to silence] 693 00:40:06,001 --> 00:40:07,584 [exhales shakily] 694 00:40:12,501 --> 00:40:14,501 - [tap squeaks] - [water running] 695 00:40:25,126 --> 00:40:27,084 [breathing deeply] 696 00:40:39,168 --> 00:40:40,043 [tap squeaks] 697 00:40:59,834 --> 00:41:00,876 [door opens] 698 00:41:03,376 --> 00:41:04,376 [door shuts] 699 00:41:13,334 --> 00:41:14,459 Police got him. 700 00:41:16,626 --> 00:41:17,834 He was just some... 701 00:41:19,168 --> 00:41:20,543 some crazy. 702 00:41:22,168 --> 00:41:24,793 Hell of a world, eh? [soft chuckle] People like that. 703 00:41:29,251 --> 00:41:31,918 Anyway, the police got him now. 704 00:41:33,584 --> 00:41:34,876 Where were you? 705 00:41:36,751 --> 00:41:39,168 He was that close to me. 706 00:41:41,584 --> 00:41:44,168 You're supposed to be my security. 707 00:41:45,501 --> 00:41:47,584 You're supposed to protect me. 708 00:41:48,459 --> 00:41:50,168 Where were you? 709 00:41:52,543 --> 00:41:56,668 I try as hard as I can to be the man you want. 710 00:41:58,126 --> 00:42:01,043 Attentive, and mindful, and... 711 00:42:02,418 --> 00:42:05,418 But always... out of the way and off to the side. 712 00:42:05,959 --> 00:42:07,209 I do it. 713 00:42:07,293 --> 00:42:10,793 I'm happy to do it because I know how important all this is to you. 714 00:42:10,876 --> 00:42:12,293 It's not just for me. 715 00:42:12,376 --> 00:42:15,251 [Conrad] I know all the good that you can do. 716 00:42:16,251 --> 00:42:17,668 So I'll be your shadow. 717 00:42:19,626 --> 00:42:25,626 Because I know, for whatever reason, a shadow of a man is what you want. 718 00:42:28,043 --> 00:42:32,709 But don't get upset with me when I'm a little too good at it. 719 00:42:40,918 --> 00:42:43,501 [classical tune playing on piano] 720 00:43:08,168 --> 00:43:11,251 [interviewer] <i>It has been said, "Behind every great man is a great woman."</i> 721 00:43:11,334 --> 00:43:13,584 <i>Behind Shirley Chisholm is Conrad Chisholm,</i> 722 00:43:13,668 --> 00:43:17,459 an investigator for the City Bureau of Medical Services. 723 00:43:18,251 --> 00:43:20,334 You two have been married for 19 years. 724 00:43:20,918 --> 00:43:22,668 How would you describe each other? 725 00:43:22,751 --> 00:43:24,584 [chuckling] 726 00:43:25,584 --> 00:43:26,918 [Conrad] Well, I tell you. 727 00:43:27,959 --> 00:43:33,043 I remember a time when she was introduced at a dinner by the MC. 728 00:43:33,126 --> 00:43:37,293 And it was very fitting, to me, 729 00:43:37,376 --> 00:43:42,126 that he described her as 100 pounds of nuclear energy. 730 00:43:42,959 --> 00:43:45,126 And