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Senator Edward Kennedy — Part 9
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. At the University of Miami, her staff ,
as unable to find the political- science
lass she.was td address. They stumbled -
nto a geography class with 29 students,
nd the young. instructor prevailed on
er to stay and talk for 15 minutes.
Zhen she found the proper class of 100
dents presided over! by a Mr. Schec-
rman.
Later, outside the Student Union, she
“jrew a mere 200 students where two
geeks earller Muskie had attracted
000. It developed that most of the stu-
7 tents happened on her quité by accident;
“here hadn’t been a single poster or ad-
insists they admire. her for it. “One of
the members: of the Black . Caucus
described me to one newsman this way,”
_She says: ‘Shirley Chisholm is’a pain ,
‘in the ass, But she’s a délightful pain
in the ass,’ ”
Still,son the stump, Shirley Chishotm
spends less time talking issues and most
‘of her time talking Shirley Chisholm.
“They talk about my qualifications,”
she fold more than 2,000 high school
students in Miami. “ ‘Shirley,’ they say,
‘what qualifications do you have to
presume to be President: ‘of the United
States?”
enthusiastically—and many black léaders 2
were induced to give her implied sup-7
port. But it proved to be* rostly polite
sham. -
“She's getting the rah-rah ‘treat-
ment,” observed Bill Oates, black owner ~
of ‘a . prospering restaurant in* i
Tallahassee. “But.when it comes to,
getting out ard ‘voting, and raising .:
money, everybody'll sit on their behinds.” :
BLACK MALE ANTIPATHY toward:
Mrs. Chisholm may ‘well have been +
heightened by coricern that, enthusiastic ®
support for, & black woman would be +
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