So Here’s What Happened When I Made 200 phone calls and Texted 500 people. "Why don’t you go F*** yourself you piece of S***!! Getting paid to do S*** work!" That was a voter who didn’t appreciate receiving a text from me asking him to support my candidate in the Illinois Governor’s race. It’s not reflective of most people’s sentiment but it was enlightening for me. I finally got the chance to meet who I’m working for to help get elected recently. He shook my hand, we had ab

While canvassing in Dolton today I can honestly say I had life changing experiences. I knocked on my first door nervously and entered into a pleasant conversation with a woman leaning JB. I left the conversation to find myself smack in the middle of a domestic violence dispute. Maybe it’s because of the reason why I was on the sidewalk to begin with but the lens through which I reflect on the voice of screaming little girl “Stop hitting my momma” is different. Communities wit

“Life is what you make it.” I’m sure that the first person who said this was giving a sincere effort to uplift whomever he said it to. On a philosophical level this lines up directly with one of my core beliefs. But if I’m being honest, when I was younger and I happened to hear this common cliché uttered to cheer me up, everything in me would want to somewhat sarcastically raise my hand and say ‘How’? How is it exactly that one goes about the ‘making of life’? If the unknown