Dreams do come true in S. Nashville. I grew up off Harding Pl. I never dreamed of visiting Korea until my mentee showed interest. A friend heard about her dream & paid for J & her twin brother to go! We all live in Napier area where it seems dreams die daily but not this time. 1/
If
@BillHaslam
and friends can create a committee to make sure the 2.1 billion dollar stadium is packed w/events then where is the committee to make sure we don’t have food deserts in Nashville?! Napier & Sudekum families shop from Dollar General & it’s not a DG market! Does …
After September 14 (runoff) I’m taking a long break from Metro politics. Reading the well reported article from Adam about the stadium corruption triggered some things. I witnessed much of what he wrote about. I didn’t even want to be in this but in February of 2022 NDOT 1/
Our here looking tired as hell while volunteer/campaigning in these hot streets for F.O. I had to make a quick pit stop at Southern Grist tho as I needed a pick-me-up!
We’re still on a high!! Getting ready for the community meal so we had to rep our guy!! South Nashville Napier residents are smiling today as many of them know Mayor Freddie. Chef Sterling from Hells Kitchen (pictured) is from Napier & he’ll be preparing our weekly community meal
#latertweet
It felt cooler outside w/loss of current for 14 hours. I went walking in my neighborhood showing folks who my pick for Nashville’s next mayor is. On days I feel like leaving the city that raised me due to the bad deals & developers.
#TeamFreddie
gives hope
#imstaying
Sharing my recommendation vote card I sent to friends who’ve asked. I also feel the need to say (for various reasons) I am supporting Z because of some of the important issues she championed as well as she gave back donations from Titans lobbyists. I may vote Crofton too!
#govote
The best part about canvassing for
@freddieoconnell
is when you meet someone who is SO excited to vote for Freddie! “There will be 5 folks in this house voting for Freddie!” she exclaimed! Before I left this sweet woman asked for multiple yard signs for her neighbors. 💙💙
@Politico_Little
@JimShulman3
We witnessed (you were there too) Angie fight for a better stadium deal when VM Jim didn’t! John you mentioned recently that Nashville is unaffordable. That ballot was 23 years ago and weren’t you on David Fox (R) campaign team? People have changes of heart.
#imWithAngie
When your friend invites you over to swim & asks you Who your choose for mayor is??? 😄😉😊 She was leaning towards Freddie & I gladly helped seal the deal w/my personal stories of Freddie showing up in Napier to listen, pick up trash & boldly stand up to bad deals!
#teamFreddie
Several people shared w/me they voted for Angie after I gave my spiel about why Angie is my pick for VM! One person shared, “After you mentioned her name, I looked her up and saw she voted No on the Stadium deal”
#teamAngie
So proud of you
@minimcdeaths
! I arrived late so I was unable to sign up to speak. Five years ago, my former principal asked me to translate in the SRO’s office. A sweet BOY who was learning English was tricked by his classmates to pull the fire alarm.He was a garífuna student 1/
Great first day at Napier Elementary. I enjoyed helping translate this morning. Diversity is growing at my neighborhood school and I love it…Such amazing students, staff, families, and community members present this morning. Go Tigers!
#lovemycommunity
Riding on the 55 for the “Free99” thanks to
@freddieoconnell
This is my 2nd time riding WeGo. My 1st was last year when I took a youth from JC/UC to Hermitage to go to the jumpy place. (I grew up in Nashville moved away after college to NYC & came back) I plan to ride more😎
@MSimoneBoyd
with Simone and
@freddieoconnell
who showed up to support us as well. The teen I’m mentoring who is a student at Hume Fogg and lived in Napier, she closed the meeting out by saying, “We need a grocery store and Y’all call us the projects, now make us a priority project”! 6/6
Facts!! Most of my door knocking experiences for Freddie have been fun because of the excitement many Nashvillians have for him! Also, Freddie surrounds himself w/ smart & genuine folks. His staff/team is going to be amazing when he’s elected!
You know what I love most about
@freddieoconnell
's campaign? It's that his campaign is one of hope and joy. People are HAPPY to vote for him - happy at the possibility of a Nashville for the people and by the people. 💪🏼💪🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Today’s the day! The Napier area is the largest barrack style public housing in US & a food apartheid! “It should be about food sovereignty, people should have a say in how their food is grown & the right to fresh, affordable, & culturally appropriate food.” -Nina Sevilla
I guess Black folks are criminals according to Steve Smith’s new ad?!?He’s a racist *** if I ever seen one & he gave a lot of $ $ to Tonya Esquivel who is running in my D17 & she didn’t even know about the public housing (JC/UC) in D17! Don’t vote for her or believe Steve’s lies!
This is why relational capital is so important. After sharing the disrespect I encountered yesterday from a mayoral candidate, I did a FB live which I hardly do but didn’t mention her name. I’ve gotten 15 messages so far about who to vote for. 1 of my friends is
#teamFreddie
now
My neighbor’s comment about Freddie picking up trash made me remember this moment I captured long before election season. When folks ask me why I am voting for
@freddieoconnell
it’s not hard to share my reasons.
#ImStaying
Unprompted, one of our favorite customers shared a sweet message with us yesterday 🙏🏾❤️ We get our produce from a farmer in White House & we sell every Sunday afternoon at a very low cost thanks to CSA subscriptions. Food sovereignty is the goal!!
Favorite moment of yesterday while volunteering for a candidate who I believe in, is when a woman said, “You don’t have to say anything, Delishia definitely has my vote!”
Heard some hard truths in MDHA while door knocking Sat. I didn’t get my usual pic—I was down afterwards. Some of the residents knew of Freddie from seeing him in the community for years but they voiced they feel the city doesn’t want them here & it’s all about tourists. 😥 1/
Question: Where are the pics/evidence of volunteers door knocking for their mayoral candidate? I mostly see that for Freddie. When folks voluntarily door knock for you, they believe in the change you will make & that’s what I tell folks when I knock for Freddie.
#ReadyforFreddie
If you know who this is then you know South Nashville!! Chef Sterling knows who also shows up for JC/UC…He mentions his name in the video. Mr. 100 helped us serve over 350 people between the two meals on Saturday & Sunday. It was beautiful to witness!
I’ve never really struggled w/anxiety much in life but in the last six months I have.I’m definitely feeling anxious about Thursday. In the words of my sweet friend
@_kellykitty_
“We know too much” & b/c of that I badly want the good souls who truly care about my hometown to win!
These two right here! I hope our friendship expands beyond the council races and city BS w/developers. In the meantime, if we-plus a few amazing others aren’t recommending you vote for someone, there’s a reason why! Cause babyyyyy
#WeKnow
#YouBettaAskSomebody
#WeareSomebody
More days than not I miss working in a school building. This morning nature was my classroom and my restoration. I’m so glad my friend suggested we go kayaking. I’ve been so busy this year that I haven’t been on the water as much. So much to be grateful for.
And we have STR laws that favor the owners & tourists who don’t want to be in traffic either so they rent a house & park 3, 4, even 5 cars on a small street like mine w/no driveways! They rideshare so they don’t move their cars for days. But I’m just a taxpayer, I don’t matter 😡
Joined the amazing team and partners at
@TNJusticeCenter
for a ribbon cutting at their beautiful new home, a new historic marker, and incredible murals.
Napier Kitchen Table is a part of the project, too, bringing a little relief to a food desert.
@MeganLeeWrites_
@stephformayor
@AliceRolli1
Freddie continually shows up at schools & in Napier. I’ve NEVER seen
@stephformayor
or Rolli in JC/UC @ events. If Rolli thinks adding Stephanie and Fran is a flex, she is FAR from understanding Black Nashville. Please have several folding chair seats but not at the barbecue!
I missed seeing
@freddieoconnell
at our Napier community safety mtg which he is almost always at. The future D17 council member will have Big shoes to fill—I actually made that statement at the mtg tonight, in front of the candidates who showed up for the very first time 💁🏾♀️
Every nonprofit needs a DJ
@UrbanEastNash
Someone that will lead a fundraiser effort. TY DJ & everyone who donated pumpkins 🎃 This event is about to be even more amazing especially if a surprise experience happens w/ the pumpkins thanks to an awesome CM 🤞🏾
Thanks to a sweet friend for gifting tickets. My friend H and I got to enjoy the amazing game last night!! It was her first. Oh my goodness, I’m still on a high!! It was so electric. I wish ALL of our sport venues were more affordable & I love the diversity present at NSC! 🤎💛🧡
Voting is open!! It only took 2 min. TY to those who worked on this arduous process; I’m excited for the changes that will occur w/the PB process under our new leadership.But for now, join in on the popularity contest as districts compete for funding we should already have 😩🤦🏾♀️😬
IMO every partybus could do that from time to time.I reached out to the tractor one to see if they would take my Napier kids on an urban hayride & didn’t hear back. Where’s the desire to give back to the community they daily annoy?Off my soapbox…I just want more for my comm! 5/5
I did a thing and one of the former students at Two Rivers Middle who I’ve developed a relationship w/ for 7 years, she did a thing too!! ❤️🎊
#CelebrateBigWins
#MNPSSummerGraduates
They asked Principal Lawless do your families here at Napier want Bike lanes. She responded, “We don’t need Bike lanes, we need a damn grocery store!” Needless to say NDOT got a mouthful from all of us that night. Fast forward to May of 2022, my dear friend
@MSimoneBoyd
3/
I got a stack of
#55
and
#6
to put at the Pruitt Library for the families/ my neighbors in the Napier area.
@woo_ten
and
@freddieoconnell
will be proud ;)
Oh & pic of the MDHA bathroom tub I posted the other day—the mom pays $920 in rent because she works two jobs making under $13 & can barely make ends meet! Let me post it again. I know a mom paying $1200 in rent. If the parent has a job then their rent is at least $800 or more 2/
Let me get in the bed. Got an early morning volunteering at the polls. Make sure y’all vote and tell your ‘fam and dem’ to go vote too!
#oneMoreSleep
#ImSoReady
Must’ve been something I ate that has me up since 3:30am 🙄 So I’m scrolling & I see Matt W. is going around town for 24hrs. Did he really glorify a youth jail? Was his only act of volunteering so far include helping a downtown bar cleanup? Did he drive past Napier and Sudekum 1/
“So where is Napier & Tony Sudekum?!” —a candidate for D17 said to two residents and me after we asked her why we haven’t seen her in the community. “Well I know about the race track…” she went on to say. 🙄
I literally walked away from her mid sentence at the Howard building!!
@MSimoneBoyd
and that night was a turning point for me. I realized how much our community wasn’t valued for the people but for the proximity to Nashville’s perceived gold mine. That’s more clear than ever! Now that I think about it, I was on my bday trip in D.R. planning that voice session 5/
& I mentioned parent (singular) as the system is designed for a single parent to live there as rent expectation will double even though they both make way under a liveable wage.I could talk all day about the broken system!But paying $800 or more for Napier/Sudekum is absurd! 3/3
Now all I need is a
@DelishiaForNash
sign and I’m set! I will be voting for 5 At-large but I’m only putting up my choice for the mayoral race and my top 2 choices for At-Large. If you want to know
#mypickfive
for At-Large, see below.
Just got home at 12:50am from council meeting. And I can’t park my car in front of my house due to the 6 out of town cars from the Airbnbs on our small street w/no driveways. Why were STRs approved for streets like mine?! There are a total of 4 on our small street!
#NashvilleWoes
Thank you to my friends for supporting my 3rd annual shoe shopping trip. Four new friends that I’ve met here on Twitter plus Erin Evans, who usually donates each year, put smiles on 20 kids faces! I gave $ to two moms who wanted to shop on their own. Today was amazing!
#heartFULL
@MSimoneBoyd
calls to inform me what was really at play. The East Bank plan smelled fishy like the crappie in the Cumberland as we soon realized it was a ploy to get buy in to the stadium! In May 22’ we hosted a community voice session in Napier!There were over 40 people including 12 teens 4/
My heart is full! We have a full house in the reading clinic today!These awesome Reading Mentors from the community commit to 30 min/wk to make a difference in the lives of our students. Did I mention that ALL students in the clinic moved up 1 or more levels?!🎉
@CommAchieves
On my bike ride I saw two of the families in our Napier community program ❤️. They spoke of the shooting last night—I had heard shots & then a mom called to tell me she fell dodging bullets. 😢 I also rode by unhoused neighbors in a tent community. I want more for all of them. 💔
@_kellykitty_
@freddieoconnell
@startleseasily
Aww 🥰 I don’t play about Napier. Freddie came to almost every monthly safety mtg & every Napier Elem. community partner mtg for YEARS. He advocated w/Dr. Lawless & myself to ensure the Napier pool gets renovated as it was going to close. He walks through MDHA & knows residents.
I’m working on exposure trips for next year! Let me know if my neighbors & I can visit your cave, waterfall, beach, private amusement park even lol. We had so much fun picking sweet potatoes this weekend. I loved how they made connections to our previous trips.
#NatureLearning
Today we celebrate a milestone.This hard working student completed his 1st chapter book in a yr! He did this w/ his virtual reading Buddy through
@PENCIL4Schools
. He can relate to Jayden’s life experiences in We are Family by
@AndreaWillWrite
@KingJames
which is his next read📚
My day in vids and pictures. Love my council friends. Also I got to take a few youth from Napier to the battle of the bands and then I ended my night at the
@walkbikenash
celebration!
#Blessed
#Tired
#LoveMyCity
Visiting my mom who always had CNN on as I usually only get highlights but I’m really disappointed with
@ErinBurnett
@OutFrontCNN
interview with Rep. Jamaal Bowman! She really had some nerve! She’s almost as bad as Majorie w/how she engaged him. CNN is truly changing!!
What day is today?! 😫Woke up so tired from being at the council meeting for 6 hours last night. I do love being around my “pew homies” and sharing snacks. Excited to get out of bed to use The Horn giftcard from
@Aggish
. I might need to order two chai’s to make it through today🥱
days of my life as a metro employee! This would’ve never happened to me as an educator in NYC. But think about how “P” & his family felt! They soon left Nashville 😢.Not all SRO’s are like that one but the point is students are arrested often regardless of what CM Nash quoted 5/5
Now my yearly dream/goal is to help at least 3 teens from Napier go out the country. As that’s how this trip came about. A teen from Napier was selected to go on her school’s explorer trip but couldn’t afford it & when she told me it was too late to assist. This trip taught me 2/
When you’ve been working long hours the last 6 days, plus a weekend of hosting community meals (helping cook for hundreds of people is beautiful & tiring btw), a few hours on the water is just want I needed. So grateful to my friend
@slovick2
for always being down for a paddle.
informed me that she wasn’t the SRO’s boss 😡😭 So 10 yr/old “P” was placed in cuffs. I’m in tears typing this as I’ve never felt so helpless in a school building before. Then I was tasked w/making a home visit to inform the mom that her baby son was arrested! One of the worst 4/
I listened to this 1to1 talk in its entirety & it’s so good!! FOC did a great job of sharing the need of a Black music scene/presence. I’ve known Freddie for 7 years & Demetria was the first “celebrity” I met at age 8.I even wrote her a letter once.
#readyForFreddie
#IwantToStay
from Honduras & in the eyes of the SRO he was a black kid “trying to get out of trouble”. I will NEVER forget this day. It’s one of the reasons I left MNPS. I thought I was in the SRO office to support the student & help him understand that we can’t pull the fire alarm. Then 2/
I'm excited and hopeful about what we can accomplish together, and it was my honor today to welcome the incoming Metro Council and Vice Mayor.
This council includes 22 women and diversity that represents our growing city. I look forward to collaborating in the years ahead.
I 💗 sports! Especially 🏒 🥅 🎾& 🏈. I realized something @ NSC game last night (thanks to a sweet friend’s invite)…I’ve been grieving the 💗 I have for the Titans. There wasn’t much talk about how some of us were holding mixed emotions calling out a team we grew up loving. 😥
yes my opinion but she didn’t seem excited that my friends & I were helping elevate the voices of those left out of the conversation. Let me tell you who showed up, Emily did! I remember how she made my neighbors and I feel as we all sat in a huge circle in Pruitt library 2/
All of this!! Sandra is a strong force and presence. She speaks with truth and boldness. She shared her lived experiences and it makes the council a better body. Sad I missed this tonight. Felicidades 🎉🎊
@SandraForNash
Congratulations
@SandraForNash
I look forward to serving with you again. Because you are unapologetically you, our county is better for it. Thank you for being bold, just, inclusive & teaching many along the way to be the same. Nashville is lucky to have you❤️❤️❤️
the SRO told me to tell him that he will be arrested! “No,” I replied..”he didn’t understand what he was doing & the vid. showed a classmate showing him how to!” “It doesn’t matter, he’s in our country & he should learn English,” the SRO said. I turned to the principal & she 3/
Thanks DJ
@UrbanEastNash
for donating pumpkins for our annual Fall Festival on October 22! DJ asked me if our youth would be getting pumpkins this year & I told him that I wasn’t sure b/c the farmer we used last 3 yrs didn’t grow them.Vid from last year:
Outside having fun with my neighbors. I’m on kid duty as the families attend the annual neighborhood Thanksgiving giveaway with Mr. 💯 and LT. I spotted a future futbol player w/ Shaq Moore’s hoodie that he handed out at his give back event in JC/UC this week! ♥️