to canvas together. It
should not have been a big thing, but the beauty of the image did not
escape me.
"Instead of walking the tree-lined streets near our home, my wife and
I were instructed to canvass a housing project. A middle-aged white
couple with clipboards could not look more out of place in this
predominantly black neighborhood.
"We knocked on doors and voices from behind carefully locked doors shouted, 'Who is it?'
"'We're from the Obama campaign,' we'd answer. And just like that doors opened and folks with wide smiles came out on the porch
to talk"
From Jonathan Curley's moving account of workin for Obama in North Carolina, in the Christian Science Monitor. This moment's bigger than any of us. Identity politics is gone. Prepare your hearts for change.
Thanks to Rupa Shah for the tip. And what's the deal with canvas/canvass?
