“To be honest, I’m not one of the politicians who says they had no plans of running for office. But I never thought I would do it at 26 years old, two years into my marriage.” –remmons2020
who cofounded the Black Panther party in Chicago. He’s been making policy for almost as long as Emmons has been alive.that the America he grew up in has not made enough progress when it comes to equality. That lived experience as a young man in Chicago is driving his run for office, he said.
While the timing may be earlier than he anticipated, Emmons is running for Congress in 2020 because of what he says is a “missing voice” in our current political system. “That missing voice is one that understands the principle that power comes from many,” he toldEmmons inherited this model of teamwork from his grandmother, who was deeply involved in her community and reinvigorated a “block club” in her 49th Street Chicago neighborhood.
At the age of 13, Emmons and his sister, who had previously lived in New Jersey, went to live with their grandparents in Chicago. The poverty he’d experienced growing up in his Garden State neighborhood was suddenly even starker and all around him, he recalled.
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