Here are some of the essays and speeches I was talking about in class on Tuesday:
Click here for her speech declaring her presidential bid in Brooklyn 1972. She mentions some things about her policy positions, like the environment and political corruption, but mostly tries to set her own stage as a candidate that represents more than just her colour, gender, or socioeconomic status.
Click here for an AWESOME essay she wrote titled "The Politics of Coalition" where she discusses the establishment's use of political and institutional power to reenforce gender and racial roles in society, then flips it on its head to demonstrate why oppressed groups should band together and generate power from their own coalition - joint political action is the only way we can pull apart the reification of the white male establishment and put ourselves between the gaps. Love love LOVED this one, not just because what she said was right and so well crafted, but also because she wrote it so eloquently for a scholarly journal in a time where professorship and doctorates were restricted to only men. Can't publish to the AJPS? No problem- Chisholm finds another avenue to the people that matter. Someone today could have wrote this and it would have still been so fitting. She was ahead of her time.
Click here for a speech she made a UCLA. She made a lot of speeches at college campuses - I remember somewhere she said that the reason she ended up considering running for president was because of a student that asked her "If not now, then when?" at one of the speeches she delivered. She talks about the importance of understanding political power and what it can do for you. She wasn't about anarchy or hating on the structure of governance or American democracy: she was all about working within the system and proving that it's built for more than just a white dude.
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