Your lecture was that she had no idea she should be unhappy and advocate for AAPI not to go down that path bc it is White supremacist thinking. That shouldnt stop anyone from calling it out where it does exist, but the essential point here is that she implicated an entire community in this harmful characterization based solely on their race. Were these students at Lincoln, or Washington, or Balboa, or wherever they would still be the same bright kids they are, and colleges would likely notice them anyway. This is like when Megan Markle went on Oprah and read the royal people for her own experience and interactions. Its simplistic and wrong. It can be perceived as racism. They all need to go. This happens in an unconscious way over a period of time. We need to move away from Collins way of thinking. Just imagine if she were a Trump supporting conservative. In 1973, however, things finally started coming together for Lynyrd Skynyrd. There is still no plan to bring back older students, the District will forfeit close to $20M because of it, and Collins is more concerned with herself than with educating the students. She is a terrible person who implemented cruel policies which hurt Asians who worked very hard and sacrificed, and never openly called on blacks she was claiming suffer to study longer hours to match the effort of the Asian Americans who were working hard for that Lowell. Im not an expert, Latina, 1st gen, mestiza, grew up poor monolingual household, single parent, for whatever thats worth. Acknowledge and change, not discriminate and unapologetic. Bush famously claimed we could pull yourself up from your own bootstraps which is ridiculous considering how he is propped up by his familys vast generational wealth. The revolution is not going to be started by academics or supporters of ruling-class parties, but by the masses they hold in contempt. The entire point of the quote is that the people being referred to will always be considered to be n***s IN THE EYES OF THEIR RACIST OPPRESSORS, no matter how much they mistakenly think that playing by the masters rules will elevate them above that status. I agree with your conclusion. What then is the difference if I cite crime statistics and call all Blacks felons and drug dealers? If you do not want your children to be competitive on the world stage, please go ahead, the rest of the world benefits from less American competition! Aside from the most unredeemably racist name changes, weve seen Collins focused on therapy for SFUSD students, to signal Board support and shield them from pain, but which does little to stop the reproduction of white supremacy. You go, girl, Im an old english teacher and I support your use of our language. The solidarity among San Franciscos political class in calling for school board vice president Alison Collins to resign is stunning in its damn-near unanimity. Many immigrants have worked harder than average and thrived. My family, refugees from Laos, escaped to the US in 1975. You are as much if a white supremacist as Trumps followers, except they come in wolfs clothing. Have you seen Collins face? The only thing I can say to all of this rhetoric you wrote I hope you have proof to support some of the self observational comments you have listed as to the reasoning why Blacks children/students are not at a higher academic level as other children. The opportunistic targeting of Commissioner Collins distracts from the national conversation around addressing Anti-API and Anti-Black hate. More black men abandon their kids or dont marry before the kid is born. It proved fatal for his girlfriend Debra Jean Watts, and left him paralyzed from the waist down. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/us/san-francisco-schools-racism.html?searchResultPosition=3. His asst principal is an Asian immigrant and when he explains that someone was not insulting her, they were just using an idiom. I can think of one obvious potential benefit **even to the highest-performing students** of having to share some classes with the bottom 95%: that there are learning opportunities for them that might compensate for maybe missing out on cramming in that extra chapter of the chemistry textbook in June. This change set the Rossington Collins band apart as they entered the 1980s. She only goes after the asian-heavy school. Unfortunately, I doubt anyone is really going to take him and his friends seriously. In saying this, if any culture works really hard they should be able to succeed, get ahead and have the American dream. But how can we as Asian leaders defend her when she doesnt give us anything? She took a few incidences and labels and entire race as that way. Actually, Medium, your comment is uninformed. By the way they are also taxpayers. affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, and It is not racist to state facts. Your email address will not be published. According to Ultimate Classic Rock, Collins pleaded "no contest" to the DUI manslaughter charges. As a now-elected official, Collins might have benefited by clearly acknowledging that her past tweets have caused pain by generalizing a very diverse community. It assumes the worst of whites, morally, and considers Asians to be suckers, manipulated by whites. Collins used a combination of drugs and alcohol to self-medicate as he tried to cope with significant trauma in his life both from the plane crash and the loss of his beloved wife. On their website they have articles dating as far back as 2017 and 2018 demeaning individuals benefiting from Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) as immoral and irresponsible people, describing members of the LGBTQ community as deviant and invasive to conservative Chinese family values, and even saying that Chinese, along with white people, are victims of affirmative action and arguing that only if African Americans and Hispanic students could humbly learn from the success of the Chinese then they too would reach academic and career success. "Alison Collins wants $87 million for damage to her career. These SFUSD employees say she destroyed theirs". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2021-05-09. ^ Tucker, Jill (November 7, 2018). Maybe there wasnt tutoring at school? Her first tweets were not totally legit. Saying that you value family and academics implies that Blacks and Browns do not. Getting a job requires an employer to give you a benefit of a doubt at some point. According to Zhao, she took herself out of the running. I will give you an example: Lets take a sport like volleyball and pretend that Americans wished to transform the sport to be more inclusive and diverse by eliminating merit based admissions (no need to count the scores, it will make the kids who are not good at it feel bad). Black kids bully Asian kids all the time. Thats not racism to note. Her tweets, in my opinion, are not fighting words toward Asian Americans. WebView the profiles of professionals named "Allison Collins" on LinkedIn. Again, I have gone to SFUSD schools growing up in SF, my kids were also enrolled in under-privileged area schools in SF where more than 75% of children are under privileged. The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have. I dont think they are comparable at all. You may also have read his work in the Guardian (U.S. and U.K.); San Francisco Public Press; San Francisco Chronicle; San Francisco Examiner; Dallas Morning News; and elsewhere. Research shows 60% of Asian American kids start Kindergarten knowing to read. Black brown yellow people are getting played against each other get it together people! Calling everyone not with you racist lol this proves you are a friend of Collins, thats what she did exactly in our school board meeting. This is outright using the word in its original negative, perjorative sense to insult another race. The members of Lynyrd Skynyrd hopped on a tour plane on October 20, 1977, not knowing that for Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, and the band's road manager, it would be the last trip they ever took. But when Black voices are too explicit about their experience, we are punishing them?! We Asians/Asian Americans do not see ourselves as inferior or superior to other races, nor should any other nationality, race, color, creed, age or gender. It doesnt mean that one side is right or wrong. This is not skimming. Theory #3 is effort. Saying her approach was too nuanced for people to understand is patheticthere is no nuance on Twitter, everyone has known that since long before 2016. But Collins was/is a major and vocal proponent of that process and the concept. This is whats in her heart. to know where Allison is. grateful for parents and educators who lovingly taught virtues of respect of self and others, hard work, frugality, healthy competitiveness, and independence. Character was important as evidenced by Martin Luther Kings famous speech. Gary Rossington and Allen Collins had performed at a few special jams, and slowly began planning a new band. How did you use the result to determine who walked fastest and slowest? This brings up another parable of the pot calling the kettle black. if D students get in. She isnt sorry at all. We have to understand the contextcalling someone a house n for doing well in school and getting in to lowell and then to UC and then getting a great job is a gross distortion of what malcolm x was talking about(because he was speaking specifically about blacks).using the model minority concept and equating it to house ns makes sense only if you feel all minorities must side with certain political and racial ideologies.her entire folly is to assume that asian people must submit and further woke agendas, and if they dont they are siding with white supremacy.Malcolm spoke in the context of independence not in the forced integration and forced equity that the woke mob intends to imposethe collective freakout the bay had because of trump is not an excuse, forced solidarity is not true solidarity.blaming those that mastered the system as siding with the supposed master, and subsequently complicit in the oppression of others is a truely distorted sense of reality.inequity does not racism make just because your woke guru said so. She could use Twitter and other mediums in a positive and constructive way but she chooses not to. SOS! And if she can drop the pretension of being an amateur Orientalist long enough actually listen to the Asian community its she thinks she represents, perhaps we can give her a few history lessons. Perhaps Ms. Collins and the rest of the Board of Education would serve their charges better by improving the educational experience for all of San Franciscos 57,000 public school students and try to bring that level up to Lowells standards rather than bringing Lowell down to the same level as the rest of the system. As stated explicitly in the story, youre asking me to put nuance and context into these statements that Collins did not. You commenters are too smart for your own good. Her main mistake was in not realizing that her audience was ignorant and racist.??? I believe that was in part because the proposed changes to the Lowell admission procedures were viewed as an attack on the over-representation of Asians at that school. They have to save and not waste money. Its a fact. Maybe there were no role models at home? I appreciate the nuance you showed here. More than a few countries yes BUT NEVER a racial group. The Northern California branch of the Society of Professional Journalists named Eskenazi the 2019 Journalist of the Year. I personally find it harmful to teach children that working hard and persevering are bad things. Sadly, neoliberal, identity politics as practiced these days offered up a political target that conservatives could not decline to engage on. It is trivially easy to find evidence that these biases exist I dont even have to leave any of the comment threads discussing Collinss tweets to find it! That said, I still cannot wrap my head around the belief of removing the merit system or teaching that wanting to work hard and persevere is succumbing to a White Supremacy belief and condemning entire communities for it. WebHigherDose Infrared Sauna Founders Commercialize Stackable Beauty and Wellness Tech. Collins and Ronnie co-wrote several hit songs for Skynyrd including Gimme Three Steps (1973), Free Bird (1974) and That Smell (1977). Overall white students make up 11% of the high school age student body. Seriously, just for making the statement bc of the strong implication against the communities that do not succeed that we dont feel these are important in our culture. She refers to Asian Americans success, higher test scores, higher income, and the other aforementioned facts as getting ahead in airquotes, being the help, and being a House N, which trivializes Asian American accomplishment and deservedness of admiration and credit and thanks for the sacrifice to achieve this. She has implemented VERY UNFAIR policies against Asians due to her racismand turns around and calls racism on others. Hard work, deferred gratification, obsession with grades and test scores, saving, marriage, focus on child development all work. After the band reunited officially in 1987, Collins by then paralyzed could only serve as musical director of the band. Thanks for the great article. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/us/san-francisco-schools-racism.html?searchResultPosition=3, https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-again-used-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-blacks, https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/board-education/board-education-meetings/2021-board-education-meeting-documents-archive, Dorsey slammed for proposal to change citys Sanctuary policy, Study finds racial disparities in deactivated Uber and Lyft drivers, Michael Moritz's strange and terrible diagnosis of San Francisco, Mission Moves: New affordable-housing funds just dropped, Dorsey slammed for proposal to change city's Sanctuary policy, End of an error: The Chronicle at last spikes Willie Brown's indefensible column, SF to close workers' idle healthcare benefit accounts and pocket the funds, Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic. This was Eugenics and most scientists believe all races have roughly equal average IQs, though the IQ may be higher for groups who say no to alcohol and drugs, and some IQ is environmental, the genetic potential for IQ is equal, and Nigerian Immigrants show higher than average white IQs, so this theory is false. Donald Trump, whose been the embodiment of the American work ethic for decades, calls them losers to which they should be summarily fired. We continue to grieve even as we support Commissioner Collins, and we call on all San Francisco leaders to focus on healing and deepening efforts to address systemic racism in our schools. Your humble narrator was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine from 2015 to 2017. She has her intersectional cake, and shes eating it too. Are they blinded by their righteousness that they cant read the room at all? I tend to not read comment sections because people just say mean things to each other, this comment section was not too bad and I learned some things. If America is unfair and racist, the goal is to destroy it and start over. His oldest daughter is Amie Collins who was born in 1971. Though Malcolm X is at times referred to, his comments quoted above are little known or discussed. Is this the San Francisco school board leadership! This material was quickly seeded into the mainstream media, where headlines simply and unambiguously described Collins tweets as racist. Calls for her ouster grew deafening and, separate and apart from the content of those tweets, a city leaders decision on what to say about Collins soon became a political calculation. Like yesterday. Yet NO ISSUES for the asian man; he was not detained for hours, stereotyped, NOTHING. Much of AIPACs work involves whitewashing Israels illegal occupation of Palestine in support of the Israeli governments campaign of dehumanizing those there before them. Is that fair?? Shortly after dissolution of Rossington Collins Band in 1982, Collins started Allen Collins Band in 1983. They worked thousands of hours and spend tens of thousands of dollars on tutoring, and spent time teaching their kids to read before kindergarten (60% of Asian American parents in California teach their kids to read before starting Kindergarten, compared to 16% of whites), made sure they read books every Summer, did workbooks and flashcards with them, read to them, met with teachers and made sure they did everything possible to get all As over other temptations. Is that going to fix things? 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