if you want to see another shirley chisholm rise, we are on the same team. if you want to let more women serve on the supreme court like elena kagan and sonia sotomayor, then we are on the same team. if you want to see more women like hillary clinton over at the secretary of state, being head of that office, then we are -- >> on the same team! >> if we want to see more melissa harris-perrys and rachel maddows on television telling our story, we are -- >> on the same team. >> if you want a fair pay act in your lifetime we are -- >> on the same team. >> if you want to see the tea party disappear, we are -- >> on the same team. >> if you want to reach that 51% that you heard about this morning in the united states congress, then we are -- >> on the same team. >> all right. if we want a congress that's responsive to our needs, then we are -- >> on the same team. >> if you want to keep title 9, as our sister spoke about this morning, arlene, then we are -- >> on the same team. >> -- on the same team. all right. if you want the equal rights amendment ever to happe

even with folks like shirley chisholm. these are people that we just don't talk about.s the first to run and win, but he was not the first to run. we really wanted to make sure that you talk about the one and the other. personally, "redefining black power", to me, is how i define my power, which may be different as to how you defined it. some people are natural leaders and some people are natural organizers. if that's what you are, go out and do it. but we don't want is for people to say that you are african-american, your life should be dictated by high unemployment, low graduation rates -- that is not all that we are. we talk about the 47% of young black boys who are graduating. what about the other 53% who are? why are we not talking about them, and why are we not producing models to replicate their success? "redefining black power" is about marrying all of those traditions and talking about all of those traditions in tandem. we are also saying look, within all of our communities -- los angeles, washington dc, baltimore -- you take your power. you say this is what i'

their word names like pat schroeder, barbara joroeder, ba shirley chisholm and others came after thatbarbara kennelly, barbara boxer, and what did we want to do? we have a congressof woman's caucus focusing on anti-discrimination whether the insurance company or social security. we wanted to change the federal law books and federal check books. issues for quite controversial. remember the e r a? we thought women would be respected in the military. jimmy carter send the first women to west point and the air force academy. we wanted to end discrimination and start with social security and medicare because if government isn't a model fan who can? we had good friend the insurance companies. let's hear it for the insurance companies. they discriminated in its go we thought the issues and fought hard. the time in the house was working about friendships. to me a time of friendships and game changing and life changing. when i came to the house as one of the maryland i commuted every single day. tip o'neill was the speaker and he would have us work late on wednesday night. i stuck up a friends