Can you help a person who doesnt want to be helped? 1 is Racism in society, which is a theory insulting to whites and unfair, as antiracism is literally our national religion and any white person acting racist is targeted for destruction and hated by nearly all other whites. His mother would work all day at a cigar factory and did a job in the evenings at Woolworths to meet ends. It reveals an inability to listen and a lack of judgment and empathy. There was the polarizing decision to paint over murals at George Washington High School depicting our founding father as the slave-owner and Indian-fighter he was. Get a code sent to your email to sign in, or sign in using a password. There are 400+ professionals named "Allison Collins", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. This hate from her is especially obvious on her attacks on Lowell. Collins says her First Amendment Rights were violated after she received a vote of no confidence for posting derogatory remarks against Asian Americans. City College SF has some great classes about the Asian-American history, if they want to learn about why their words and actions are so hurtful and dangerous. But the fact remainsCollins wants to punish the people who did qualify based on merit. Many whites are suffering also, mostly due to poor choices and behavior. 1822. Should we add you to that list of scholars as well? For her, to pander and hope By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Based on her actionsnot just with these tweets, but in all the board meetings, in person, and on social mediashes someone who believes her perspective is the correct one, naysayers be damnned. Think of this as a wake-up call. Realizing any singer would be faced with inevitable comparisons with Ronnie VanZant, Allen and Gary chose Dale Krantz, a gutsy, whiskey-voiced female backup singer from .38 Special. My mom was a poor Chinese immigrant and my dad was was a poor working class White kid. The rich private schools wont lower their standards. Her presumable primary audience for these tweets was other activists, and this is reflected in the language she used; shes paraphrasing a Malcolm X speech and shes using terms that come directly from CRT and related schools of thought. The opportunistic targeting of Commissioner Collins distracts from the national conversation around addressing Anti-API and Anti-Black hate. Everyone can easily be for funding parks and playgrounds and kiddies and sea walls. I find it harmful to pit races against each other and to continue to tell race groups they are victims or if they worked hard and became successful to call them White adjacent and the problem, or they are the problem bc they are White no matter socio-economic status. somewhere that Amie is living in South Carolina, but no one seems Its time for Allison Collins to do the same. Joe was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. To qualify, students must have a Therefore Asian kids are harder working and whites lazier on average. It is racism, it is inflammatory, and it is not appropriate for someone responsible for children she is clearly racist towards. We heard her over and over again Too Many Asians! She has to go. He could use his arms and hands limitedly. 16% of whites do, in CA. ^^ Dino, thats incorrect. Like those schools, Lowell performs so well because its creaming its not high-performing because its standards are exceptionally high, its high-performing because its skimming the highest-scoring students in the city off the top . Do you need to re-take the Diversity and Respect class? She is no longer a private citizen but a public official. Give respect to earn respect! Dont ignore how prejudice toward Black people from anyone in the Asian community furthers white supremacy! He was born in Jacksonville, Florida. Do not denigrate the curiosity, dedication, assiduous work ethic, talent of these Lowell students. There has NEVER EVER been an instance where kids are purposely excluded from any programs or resources at either school. Im 1/4 Asian American, but Im Afghan. I think those on the school board are fighting for the underdog and finally trying to end some white supremacy practices. Do I hate all races because a small subset of them said derogatory slurs to me? Can someone please clarify if they have the power to do this? and family. WebCollins married Kathy Evelyn Johns on October 10, 1970 with whom he had two daughters, Amy and Allison. The reason she should resign is her advice keeps black kids down. Interesting how Lauter echoes the Israeli disdain for existing populations and their ongoing oppression with his support of local relatively recent (compared to Blacks) migrants by choice and their descendants over the descendants of chattel slaves who capitalized the nation and have been consistently, summarily disenfranchised. mb, who is the real idiot? This is a lot to take in bc it is a broad stroke and I am trying to understand it myself. Feinstein has been cancelled already. She has too much pride to admit when shes wrongthat was evident even before those tweets came to light. It proved fatal for his girlfriend Debra Jean Watts, and left him paralyzed from the waist down. 1826. Namely that ones race gender and sexuality only counted if they were in ideological lockstep. Collins sounds pretty hateful towards Asian-Americans, to be honest. Eliminating merit or performance based admissions means that the schools do not want the kids to perform! Nearly all would choose B, trauma included. It is the path for academically-oriented low and middle income kids to get into a top college. The third result is Allison Collins age 20s in Muncie, IN in the Orchard Lawn neighborhood. I just listened to his whole speech today for the first time. Lots of other countries with renowned education systems do not aggressively sort their students at the primary/secondary level like this; they wait for university exams to do that. Jim Ausman; Oh, please enlighten us, the clueless readers. I see this comes from the Alison Collins school of public relations yell at and insult others who dont immediately agree with you and ignore their point of view. These are the new standards she and the others have set; time to live by them. get by effectively getting rid of its nationally renowned public college prep school. You go, girl, Im an old english teacher and I support your use of our language. She called hundreds of Lowell parents, mostly Asian, racist on a hot mic and destroyed Lowell, a world class school many Asians and others are very proud of in world rankings, #2 on AP. My parents were the help.. (If anything it will increase it, as Willy said above. And advocating for policies that belittle the black community under the faulty assumption that they cannot achieve the same results as the rest of us. The slaves that worked in the home were less likely to push for abolishing the system because they did not see much wrong with it, but the master could always relegated them to hard labor. No, there are a large variety of answers. His Its obvious the many millions of successful African Americans became so through hard work and wise decision making. She is unfit to be on the board and would have been fired from the private sector long ago. 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. She was given many chances and she doesnt have a damn in our meetings. Lets keep it REAL here. In 1970, Allen married Kathy Johns. How do we have a school board that is so politically UNsavvy? She is doing a dis-service to those kids. I would add to my previous comment not only benefitting from the model minority myth, but not realizing the way in which it harms us (Asian Americans). It marked his last performance with Skynyrd. "Skynning" Europe alive. Or being an anti-Asian racist. In the Lynyrd Skynyrd biographyWhiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars: The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd, author Mark Ribowsky illustrates that Collins suffered from terrible survivor's guilt and PTSD that lead to severe nightmares. Is Dianne Feinstein an historical person or a living human being? Actually, Id argue that the James Lick issue is less problematic 18 years after dying is a lot less of a problem than two years before getting elected. This has awoken the beast and any attempt to run her off the job is going to make things worse. Collins has been judged guilty of using currently non-PC correlatives in her vernacular. Webthe Secret life of Wilkie,. Berkeley. Because this sentence is ignorant and not even wrong its incoherent in about 5 different ways, and the FIRST way its incoherent is that fatty acids do not have genetics; that is terminology that people in medicine apply to other molecules which contain actual genes. Allen used the Tribute tour to go on stage and let his fans know the reason why he couldn't play with Skynyrd -- a powerful, sobering message few fans will forget. 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). Now, more than ever, both sides need to come together, stand together, listen together, and heal together. Asian kids study an average of 13.8 hours a week and study summers. Yeah, languages are dynamic things and they grow and contract both naturally and by the intentional influence of various groups for various reasons. Many jobs are obtained through social networking, something non-Hispanic white people of considerable wealth engage in. If the Negro wasnt taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. WebThere are some familiar faces on this 1961 Ypsilanti High track team, Class A Regional titlist. I have hereby decided that Herman Melvilles Moby Dick is a light comedia dellarte about the game of golf cool, okay, got it. He pleaded no contest to vehicular manslaughter and to driving under influence of alcohol. Dont step on the backs of Black people and look down on us while youre getting ahead. Chinese American parents in the 1990s were so race aware that they filed a lawsuit to upend the desegregation consent decree for neighborhood schools just as they are raging in favor of performance segregation to elite schools that are not neighborhood schools. Presumably, they have reasons for arranging their systems like this. Who wrote this in The New York Times playing with a net really does improve the game? 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! But her comments are completely representative of her lifes work, which has been to fight for and implement policies which are damaging to and unfair to Asians. Step down Alison. She must resign! Allison Collins married a wealthy white real estate developer. Read Triple Package. It also isnt lost on me that the people speaking of AAIP people often are not speak for darker skin vietnamese, filipina or other non East Asian groups that also work hard and want to achieve American dream but still are looked at manual labor. Black kids bully Asian kids all the time. Both are true. She make it clear and loud that shes a racist and prefers some race and not all. If she had Id be open to restoration. She made her racist comments in 2016, not 1916. The band, for being as famous and talented as they were, had more problems than any "Simple Man" would find bearable. But if she does, I will not call for her to resign. So now were back to laziness. She has actively pursued policies that specifically hurt Asian American children more than any other group. And while the benefits of Lowell to its students beyond the brand are vague, there are likely real costs from the status quo; the education research Im aware of seems to suggest that it might actually harm the bottom 90-95% of students for a school system to aggressively sort the top 5-10% of kids out of their schools completely. Families studied to get into Lowell the last year of merit as a sophomore and she destroyed them because one person said something wrong on a blog, which puts families in the unreasonable position of helping their kids get all As and also simultaneously having to police every person on the Internet and prevent them from saying anything racist. Ive not been a fan of Collins. None of us spoke out against Trump? 2. Collins then joined hands with Rossington to form Rossington Collins Band in 1979. She could use Twitter and other mediums in a positive and constructive way but she chooses not to. Whats more, casual monolingual Chinese voters would not be able to distinguish this strategically appealing, manufactured name from a Chinese candidates actual name. Im not an expert, Latina, 1st gen, mestiza, grew up poor monolingual household, single parent, for whatever thats worth. I received a class A education throughout my life yet I was in the dark on much of it until this past year. Shame on her, and Shane in anybody who defends her. Zhou was NEVER apologetic, in fact she laughed while giving an interview on this disgusting mural. He was a composer, known for Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), Straw Dogs (2011) and Speed Racer The wedding reception played host to a piece of rock and roll history -- one of the first public performances of "Freebird" complete with the trademark extended guitar jam at the end. If someone thoughtfully disagrees with your position it does not make them a racist. We just hustled, prayed, and did the best we could. It is then, an honorary white person position will be bestowed upon the loyal Asian. Despite her explicitly anti-transgender advocacy (in 2013 Zhao advocated against gender-neutral bathrooms in San Francisco schools) , Mayor London Breed and state Senator Scott Wiener were proud to endorse her and support her candidacy. America is a great nation most want to move to and a land of opportunity in the present. Collins was driven further into devastation and substance abuse. Our schools need to be an opportunity for all races and ethnicities to succeed. Not one peep. I guess that makes my parents house niggers (Malcom X: The house Negroesthey lived in the house with master, they dressed pretty good, they ate good because they ate his foodwhat he left). However, the pull of creating music was too strong for Allen to walk away from. This exam, which must certainly have had some cultural bias favoring the wealthy, opened the door to a middle class life to anyone willing to put in the work (poor or wealthy) to study and pass the exam. The goal should also be to get those whites to study more hours, marry, save, etc. Scientifically, if one group behaves differently and achieves success, their behavior is likely a cause of their success and other groups could emulate it. 3. Check the tweets again! if there was one instance a daughter would be ashamed of her mom, this was it. Have we suddenly forgotten that mayoral candidate Ellen Lee Zhou and during her campaign, Zhou ran into controversy for paying to erect a billboard that depicted a racist scene involving Mayor London Breed. The paralysis from the car accident contributed to the chronic pneumonia, a common problem issue seen in people who are paralyzed, that ultimately took the life of Allen Collins on January 23, 1990. You need to consider group behavior, even knowing there are exceptions, to understand why things are the way they are. Collinss generalizations were clumsily phrased and overbroad, but her basic points are completely sound and backed by data from AAPI researchers who have studied attitudes about race in AAPI communities. Vote to stop renaming. It is the fairest and purest form of meritocracy there is. You said it- most asian americans do not harbor anti-black feelings. Rather, parents want to have their children rewarded for excelling in school. Its not. We all got played here, one tells me. Any valid point made is going to be torpedo by calling someone a bozo, that they need to read a book or dropping references to demonstrate being cultured in the Arts. You are as much if a white supremacist as Trumps followers, except they come in wolfs clothing. Asians just shut up, get to work and make that money. I dont even think the tweets are the strongest reasons for Collins to leave. Its also about opportunities that may not have been accepted/taken, it might also be about family/home life problems, it might also be about medical problems that affect learning, it might be about pop culture where being smart isnt always the coolest, its a lot of things. WebAlison M. Collins (born 1969/1970) [1] is a former commissioner of the San Francisco Board of Education. Her career, public or otherwise, would be ruined. You felt it that she deserves to be called out for not being familiar enough on what racism means as defined by scholars YOU subscribe to (definitions which have evolved and vary), is this really being progressive and advocating for AAPI? It is cowardly to make excuses Go to a library on San Bruno Avenue or Geneva and Mission and see how many Asian kids are there on a weekend, in the Summer. Again, colloquial speech as it were. 4. I see the Berniecrats are opposed to the call for resignation. Asian Americans in San Francisco, even those inclined to support Collins or at least elements of her worldview would never be a less charitable audience. I thought a member of the board has to resign or be recalled (which requires 70k signatures, pen on paper). Shell be more honorable and alison tried to openly shame her perceived asian enemies/competitors, but it backfired. A racist has no role on making policy decisions where 50% of students are Asian Pacific Islander. I just finished reading all the comments. Its GARBAGE. For whatever its worth, Id bet the NYTimes would not have run its piece on the SF school board yesterday were it not for the reporting here. After several years of practicing, performing and personnel changes, Skynyrd, like any decent group of fledgling rock stars, started gigging the notorious one-nighters. Same thing is happening here. The atmosphere in December 2016 was not the same as it is in March 2021. Jim, she was not referencing Malcolm X. Collins and Lopez destroyed what families had worked thousands of hours to earn, for everyone, out of spite for those who work hard, out of a belief all minorities shouldnt try to assimilate and learn but instead should work together to create a socialist utopia. One woman should not stand in the way of solidarity, and Alison Collins needs to recognize that and resign. Why is it that racism coming from the left complicated while racism from the right is clear as day? Character was important as evidenced by Martin Luther Kings famous speech. 2021, is the year we speak up. Calling merit white supremacy is such an inane concept coming from anyones mouth. Have you made one peep about the racist SOTA? You cant do that if you dont notice. Jan. 25, 1990 12 AM PT. This city has been very unfair to minorities with the gentrification of many neighborhoods and the exuberant rents. The Collins family first started attending the races when Allen was eight years old and Allen, sitting as high in the stands as possible, would laugh and holler as he pretended to be racing his own car. Youre wrong, Nigerians prove it. Her main mistake was in not realizing that her audience was ignorant and racist.. shaming yourself? The next Board of Education meeting is slated for 3 p.m. today, and it remains to be seen how good and pleasant that will be. WebAllen Collins was born on July 19, 1952 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. I say that as a brown girl whose eyes were opened this year, and who now gets it. You can be successful if you work hard. Asians are model minorities which is a euphemism for house negro. If you dont understand her tweets or my comments here, please educate yourselves on the history of systemic racism in America. Why are you assuming the best with Ms. Collins? Geoffrey Canada says black kids and parents have to sacrifice as many hours as it takes. Its the foundational values and morals (rather than entitlement, blame, and bringing standards down) instilled in these kids that propel them to 95% graduation rate from SFUSDnot White Supramacy values. His physical condition allowed him to serve only as music director of Skynyrd when it reunited officially in 1987. Here's a little bit about the tragic life of Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist and founding member Allen Collins. 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. She did worse than carjack thousands because a stranger said something. She took responsibility and stepped down, which is something Collins is refusing to do I dont see the comparison here. Allen's unique, firey guitar playing and powerful songwriting helped insure Lynyrd Skynyrd's place in rock and roll history. Please dont buy into the idea that this is a one-time error in judgement. Probably because it was one of the songs they're best known for. I mean some people are just jumping on the bandwagon but reasonable people will realize she was referencing Malcolm X and have more sympathy for the context.. beaten? Ask her to look around before she insults us again. Humility in knowing that I aint all that, that you dont know it all and that your successes in life were the result of others helping you out along the way. Collins, forgetting to mute said to another board member, I am listening to a bunch of racists. Asian-Americans like this dont show up to protests when unarmed Black folks get shot dead. Set aside the incendiary last tweet and the question of whether or not she was channeling Malcolm X for a moment. 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. Our meeting ended when I said, Sam, were Israel not committing crimes, there would be no need for AIPAC. i have an M.D. We also are subjected to covert discrimination, and recent events like 9/11 or the pandemic, remind us that we have to be vigilant. For more information, please see our Is character education taught in todays schools or emphasized in our country? This isnt due to poverty. You dont see Asian children in immigration dog cages and taken and separated from their parents by immigration. Since Asians think theyre pretty smart, they get pretty arrogant when new information is presented that contradicts their worldview. I will try to explain where Collins failed based on what I know. You have to use the scientific method. Collins racist hate and her non-apology make a mockery of those very understandable fears. She can go ahead with her threat and try to deport us! Its inconceivable that many Nigerians, Jews, Mormons, Chinese, Indians, Koreans, Lebanese, Persians etc. We should not have a biased, ignorant person representing us. Collins rushed the change in Lowell by 8 months because someone, nobody knows whom, said something on a blog that is racist. Can you readers believe teacher Joe used the word sclerotic in succeeding pieces? Ive been to numerous police brutality protests and Asians are like unicorns. But black kids study fewer hours. There is at least equal African American racism against Asians and NO ONE would defend an Asian saying about African Americans what Collins said about Asians. Black kids study less than whites, on average. I believe there are more good than bad in each race. If you participate in one of the public schools board meetings, you will know she gave no one a chance. Switch out Asian Am with African Am and read it again. after my name. 8. A community forum, pass the mic around, have Ms. Collins sit with those she hurt and be part of the solution. You and others are reacting to a comment that wasnt even meant for them lol Theres no excuse for discrimination and being a racist! Collins, who was a private citizen in 2016, is entitled to think what she thinks and write what she writes. Call for the arrest of those who destroyed the statues in Golden Gate Park and spraypainted Kill Whitey, and help police track them down and make a citizens arrest (I am 90% sure the person who did this was white, but whatever race they are they should do 10 years in prison for destroying those statues). The harder one works, the more success a person can achieve. 1. Even if she was a victim in the past, it doesnt give her anymore right to hurt others. WebAccording to her Instagram, she says that someone named Les Collins is her father, NOT Allen Collins. Her youngest daughter really resembles Allen. During the 1987 Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute tour Allen served as musical director -- selecting the set lists, arranging the songs and setting the stage. Is that going to fix things? And furthermore, SOTAs student body is 37% white, vs 11% for te district as a whole. Immigrants prove that. Replace words in the brackets with any other minority and stereotype and Im not sure that there will be so apologists trying to legitimize the idea. What then is the difference if I cite crime statistics and call all Blacks felons and drug dealers? It assumes we secretly are attempting to maintain white supremacy and using Asians as pawns in an evil plot. I want to know what really happened when I read a period account and the best way to do that is to be given that account in the language and understanding of the period of that account. Nothing was taken out of context. Black people have been beaten, battered and abused in this country, both literally and figuratively, for centuriesput at great disadvantage through written laws up until the 1970s and through unwritten practice til present dayand when a good portion of their communities dont thrive, we blame their lack of work ethic! I find it intriguing that I havent seen a simple point anywhere. 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