The goal of these people like Collins and Lopez is to destroy what America stands for. Grow your brand authentically by sharing brand content with the internets creators. Youre suggesting that these terms have universal definitions that are widely accepted by scholars. Im saying that the scholars defining this field arent actually scholars, and ipso facto, neither you nor anyone else can say that weve defined any of these terms in a way that has been accepted universally. Allen's parents had recently divorced and times were tough for Allen, his sister and mother. Thank you Randy Cameron for standing in solidarity with those who were harmed by Commissioner Collins words. We just hustled, prayed, and did the best we could. Please do not denigrate the hard work that dedicated teachers, staff, and administrators at Lowell have put in to creating a learning environment at Lowell that meets hard working students where they are and shows them how far their aspirations and hard work can lead them. Are we reverting back to segregation? If the hiring manager is Asian and you are a person of color you can forget about getting the position. But Collins is not wrong in saying, Hey dont ignore our struggle! Therefore Asian kids are harder working and whites lazier on average. we are only different, and thankfully so. Enjoying the misfortune of others seems to cut across many barriers, including intelligence. 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. Kids should not be abused but must be prepared to handle a world full of pain. Asian American kids spend more hours studying than white or other ethnicities of kids, a completely factual statement, and that we need to try to increase the study hours of others to close the achievement gap. They had other accomplishments as well, like convincing millions that they longed for their homeland of Alabama, whether or not they'd ever been to the state. My comment never claimed they werent, nor that they didnt. Its not unreasonable on its face to question whether this is a system that makes sense from the perspective of how to allocate resources across every student in the district. Asian kids study an average of 13.8 hours a week and study summers. Are you now OK to go ahead with cancelling Allison Collins? Blacks can be poorer for any of 3 reasons. What is A person who sells flower is called? I think those on the school board are fighting for the underdog and finally trying to end some white supremacy practices. The revolution is not going to be started by academics or supporters of ruling-class parties, but by the masses they hold in contempt. Black kids will attain equality by not having resentment, putting their heads down and working very, very hard. I have two kids in SFUSD and seeing so little African American kids in the district is very sad and made me think what is it like for those kids that are so much in the minority. Even if she was a victim in the past, it doesnt give her anymore right to hurt others. The injuries also limited the use of his upper body and arms. Born at St. Lukes Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida on July 19, 1952, Allen (delivered by Doctor Owens) weighed in at 7 pounds, 14 ounces. So when these expectations are repeated to you over and over, you end up complying with these constant demands and end up being a model minority. When I met with Lauter about a decade ago after he read some posts of mine less than supportive of Israel, he invited me to coffee. Very amateurish. ), and give students what they REALLY need to excel instead of HANDICAPPING the education system. This article hits it on the head bc Collins has no defense for her broad stroke generalizations of the entire Asian community that are contrary to one of the first fundamental understandings of crit: no person has a single, easily stated, unitary identity. Feinstein has been cancelled already. With the band having so much tragedy surrounding it, it's not a far stretch to assume that the band's members each had their own tragic lives. A very large part of the argument that SF needs a purely merit-based elite magnet high school rests on the assumption that while Lowell students might only negligibly more prepared for college than they would be excelling at Balboa or wherever, the prestige of the Lowell brand is what gets these kids into better colleges than they otherwise would get into. It was surprising to me that one responder accused him of making it all about himself, when I thought he stepped outside of his own experience to see what Alison Collins was trying to say. Her death devastated Collins. In the front row, from left, are Seniors Jerry Albertson, Ron Allen, Bill Kersey, David Collins, Ray Patterson, Mickey Greer, Frank Sayre, Bob This is bullshit.. 8. By the way, growing up, I have been called racial slurs by Caucasians, Latinos, Middle Easterns, other Asians, and yes, even African Americans? YOU are the one that has to start centering black culture and indigenous culture in your work. 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. Shell be more honorable and If this City is ever to recover we have to start pushback now. 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. 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. Commissioner Alison Collins has been one of the few consistent anti-racist voices among politicians in this city. If you really want equality, never, ever use private school, period. Billy Powell, Amie Williamson, daughter of late guitarist Allen Collins (at podium), Judy Van Zant, widow of late singer Ronnie Van Zant (C) of Lynyrd Skynyrd, inductees, and other family members (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc). 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. 1826. Sam Lauter was former SF AIPAC chief and has been a corporate lobbyist and campaign consultant for candidates and measures that that repeatedly and successfully targeted Black and brown communities in San Francisco for exploitation by conservative Democrats on behalf of their speculator clients for decades. She was born Abt. Berkeley. Jim, she was not referencing Malcolm X. How often do you hear news of Asians committing violent crimes against Blacks? Kathy had a fatal haemorrhage during miscarriage of the couples third Its the magical idea that one can achieve success simply by personal effort unassisted by anyone or anything else. In college, other students (rich white kids) called me and my fellow Asian friends grinds because we studied every day including weekends, and didnt party enough. Her inflammatory and divisive rhetoric is intentional. But Collins was/is a major and vocal proponent of that process and the concept. You are the enemy of all. Lowell gave a reward for hard work. ALLEN2 COLLINS (VARDY1) was born Abt. Im open to being convinced with clear, hard data. If they do hire a Black or Latino applicant, that is a front that the manager to show fairness in the hiring process. Those with 40k or 50k a year per kid get elite high schools, but 35% of Lowell on Free Lunch dont. I dont even think the tweets are the strongest reasons for Collins to leave. shaming yourself? Collins is still alive and could actually make amends for past harm, unlike the guy whos standing on the dead Indian in that apparently progressive mural inside Washington High. It is the fairest and purest form of meritocracy there is. I have heard this from teachers (at other schools). What are the disadvantages of a clapper bridge? The band existed till 1984. WebAlison M. Collins (born 1969/1970) [1] is a former commissioner of the San Francisco Board of Education. If you stay married even if not getting along, dedicate yourself to your kids, study 10,000 hours more than average, eat well, avoid drugs, marry before kids, do workbooks and flashcards and long hours of reading and grammar study, the content of your character is good, no matter your race. She make it clear some deserved help and others do not. This early fascination lasted throughout Allen's life -- he later collected an entire fleet of collectible and performance cars that was one of his proudest possessions. 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. Michael Moritzs strange and terrible diagnosis of San Francisco, In SF, it takes a village to do illegal construction, New local affordable housing funding just dropped, polarizing decision to paint over murals at George Washington High School. You and others are reacting to a comment that wasnt even meant for them lol Theres no excuse for discrimination and being a racist! But when Black voices are too explicit about their experience, we are punishing them?! Nigerian Americans, and most African immigrants, are less lazy than whites in school and parenting. Parents are not looking for a private school education paid for by taxpayers. It included most of the Rossington Collins Band members excepting Krantz and Rossington and released the album Here, There & Back in 1983. She dismissed Triple Package as white supremacist. Parents have to make enough money or make enough sacrifices to provide a stable environment for learning. But then that wont make it elite, and it will no longer be a desirable school. Maybe Commissioner Collins deserves the same opportunity be given credit for what she has done and to work with others to learn from past mistakes. Look it up before you tweet. Your fellow antiracists are desperate not to have to call you out. Mission Local produces enterprise-reporting on SFs most critical issues: police reform, corruption, public health, housing and homelessness. Your contribution is essential to our work. Asian students come from less fortunate households and immigrant households as well where parents may not speak english. Apologizing means you acknowledge how your words are perceived as hurtful to others. Maybe thats not really true! But of course, the honorary white status is provisional and can be revoke at anytime depending on the political expediencies of the real white people in charge. This brings up another parable of the pot calling the kettle black. Yet today, they ask Mayor Breed for help and millions of $$$ to fund an program for Asian protection. She should resign. They also, coincidentally, just purchased a new car for $40,000. The plane crashed in the woods next to the Mississippi River while attempting an emergency landing because they ran out of fuel. Collins then joined hands with Rossington to form Rossington Collins Band in 1979. Please do not paint all Lowell students and families with a broad and inaccurate generalizations for which you have no evidence. Through all the degrees and academics, you all have forgot how to carry on adult conversations. Every poor person will only get ahead by denouncing laziness and embracing effort. 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. The various public board meetings where Allison Colins has continued to single out Asians by citing time, over and over again, that there are too many Asians at Lowell and calling everyone, including Asians, on the meeting who opposed removing merit admissions racist. There are a bunch of them so feel free to dig through those meetings here: https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/board-education/board-education-meetings/2021-board-education-meeting-documents-archive. She took responsibility and stepped down, which is something Collins is refusing to do I dont see the comparison here. i have an M.D. Your grandstanding masks a contempt for the unwashed masses. We need advocates for our kids and not someone whos devoted to scapegoating others. vote to remove the merit-based entrance system at Lowell High School. Even when Gary Rossington and Dale Krantz quit the Rossington Collins Band, Allen continued on forming the Allen Collins Band in 1983. Im not bragging, I just want people like her to know, I did it because of hard work and not through white supremist thinking) and I didnt have to marry a wealthy white real estate developer to get ahead. No more than I as an Asian American, have the right to call her any type of racial epithet. I was less referring to Zhaos position than I was pointing out that elected officials, including Breed and Wiener, were steadfast in their support of her. Worried that the long hair of Collins's bandmates would scare her friends and relatives, Kathy John had them wear wigs so they'd seem more presentable to the normal folk. A house negro enjoys all the privileges of working in the masters house and would do anything to keep their position. Acknowledge and change, not discriminate and unapologetic. I dont know you, you dont know me. Failure to fall into line and call for Collins to go could be weaponized further against an elected official, as it was in the case of Ross Mirkarimi. We all got played here, one tells me. And you, MB, calling an accomished AAPI an idiot for believing in the American Dream bc she feels she is living it. Spend one hour listening to Thomas Sowell and learning habits. WAKE UP everyone. 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. That shows Asian kids are 4x as likely to have parents who made a sacrifice of several hundred hours. telling me to read more books or stop commenting. Allison Collins By Ryan Broussard [email protected] Aug 18, 2014 - 3:54 pm Prosecutors will not file charges against Baton Rouge singer Allison if D students get in. thank you, MER, for your heartfelt, educated and eloquent 3/25 post. Thats incredibly cruel! I personally think this is the failure of the Academic Left: a deep contempt for the working class or those who do not pursue a higher education. WebAccording to her Instagram, she says that someone named Les Collins is her father, NOT Allen Collins. Her youngest daughter really resembles Allen. They are proving Collinss point about anti-black biases with an absolutely amazing lack of self-awareness. I think Collins is wrong, and unapologetic! The opportunistic targeting of Commissioner Collins distracts from the national conversation around addressing Anti-API and Anti-Black hate. I commend Norman Yee for pushing back against that narrative and using his voice for once! Alison Collins read people for filth! Oh please, heres the only context you need to know. How many Democrats use private school? Please, do just that. Her career, public or otherwise, would be ruined. Having someone on a school board telling her charges (the students) that hard work (merit) has no place in San Francisco is completely opposite of what you want educators to say. This is like when Megan Markle went on Oprah and read the royal people for her own experience and interactions. So white students are 3X overrepresented at SOTA. If she wanted to make progress, she wouldnt spend all her time on cosmetic BS and put together after school and tutoring support for inner city students, build programs that pair mentors (e.g. Spend one hour listening to Amy Chua and learning habits. Getting a job requires an employer to give you a benefit of a doubt at some point. This is standard operating procedure for Collins. Collins is doing real harm to 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. If America is unfair and racist, the goal is to destroy it and start over. 4. 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. Collins use of the term House N***** is an accurate term when used to describe the position given to Asians in a white dominated society. Someone or some system has to be there to nurture that success. However the band's 1981 follow-up effort stumbled in the marketplace despite being well-received critically. I have hereby decided that Herman Melvilles Moby Dick is a light comedia dellarte about the game of golf cool, okay, got it. I love how the majority of comments on this story prove Collins point in the first placethat anti-blackness is on full display in the San Francisco public school system. It is racism, it is inflammatory, and it is not appropriate for someone responsible for children she is clearly racist towards. Its a shame that the likes of Allison Collins is what passes as representative of progressive San Francisco. Subscribe today to get Mission Local's stories delivered directly to your inbox. The accomplished AAPI is a doctor. Even though the server responded OK, it is possible the submission was not processed. Black and brown people are leaving that were integral parts of our community. Im not any of those things, nor am I a Republican, and I agree with himdid you look at the research they did? If youre complaining people missed nuance and context, maybe it wasnt there to start with. OK, if you want restoration, heres what Collins can do. But the fact remainsCollins wants to punish the people who did qualify based on merit. Blacks have every opportunity to prove as an individual they want to learn by sacrificing those hours. Personal tragedy struck again on January 29, 1986 when Collins new Ford Thunderbird crashed into a ditch. Many jobs are obtained through social networking, something non-Hispanic white people of considerable wealth engage in. Gold and platinum albums followed a string of hit songs like 'Sweet Home Alabama', 'Saturday Night Special', 'Gimme Back My Bullets', 'What's Your Name? 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. Collins and Ronnie co-wrote several hit songs for Skynyrd including Gimme Three Steps (1973), Free Bird (1974) and That Smell (1977). Theres more than a standard deviation between blacks and African and Asian immigrants in study hours per week, and black and Asian immigrants have virtually eliminated everything we complain about black people experiencing, homelessness, prison, being killed by police, being killed by criminals, murder, extreme multi-generational poverty, lifetime of minimum wage, etc. Everything about the greatest Southern rock band that tragically came to an end in October, 1977. You assert this as if it were absolute fact. To not only deny that but to also, when called upon it, double down on it, is despicable. The right wing in San Francisco is rampaging full spectrum, YIMBY, schools, DA, while the passive progressives are busied selling out the citizenry for their nonprofits, screwing grass movement progressive left movements, and parsing faux pas in political class court discourse. The reason black woman might have different perspective and I dont know miss collins nore can i apologize for her words i am speaking as adult outside of SFEDD but went to very merit based supposedly diverse school district with same school within school problem faced by students in the SFED district that had tons of african american students but few in AP class level . Try listening. 7. It is then, an honorary white person position will be bestowed upon the loyal Asian. Opening the Who tour. I dont even have kids, but after the school renaming debacle and the fact that schools are still closed after we put teachers at the front of the line for vaccines, I will vote against every incumbent on the ballot. This is just a clueless interpretation of both Malcolms quote and the way Collins deployed it. The business is also launching topical and ingestible products centered around In closing and the truth is, who really continues to really be discriminated here, they are BLACK and Latinos in this county and city, they continue to be KILLED and DISCRIMINATED by the police and society its a fact. Jim Ausman; Oh, please enlighten us, the clueless readers. People do not achieve success solely from their own individual efforts. Much of AIPACs work involves whitewashing Israels illegal occupation of Palestine in support of the Israeli governments campaign of dehumanizing those there before them. And to add more insult, she then suggests our accomplishments in America are false, that we are still only the help because we use white supremacy to get ahead, based on her opinion that Asians were too silent for her political liking in 2016. Obama got elected by saying any man who abandons his kids and doesnt marry the pregnant mother of his kids and try to be the best dad he can be and help teach his kids is a lowlife, and you can never be so poor you can watch TV with your kids but cant possibly study. Is Dianne Feinstein an historical person or a living human being? Whats even more sickening is that in Atlanta the recent shooting and at the scene of the shooting, a Latino male named Mario Gonzalez who is Mexican was stereotyped, detained and handcuffed by Atlanta police for hours. Many Asians despite pressures to excel in school, still find themselves living on the economic margins in poverty. I dont think this detail is going to placate anyone. Collins is anti Asian as seen through her tweets and her actions. Allison was injured as a baby when her Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.. Theres no such thing as white people. 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. Why shes speaking on our behalf? The others stood in solidarity with Collins Anns these ideologies that do not serve out students or our city. The school named after her is on the list of the 44 schools to be renamed. If we want to talk about harm, accusations of racism and white supremacy today in a place like SF is a far more harmful characterization than traditional racial stereotypes that would conceivably spark far more outrage. And, what I cant dismiss is she is likely a factor in why we are losing our first Black superintendent, as well as our Black vice principal, and our Latinx vice principal. Hey, my parents were fundamentalist Pentacostal hillbillies and they taught us kids everything but fear. He could use his arms and hands limitedly. 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. Collins must go for the good of SFUSD. Plus we now have a giant chip on our shoulder and will blame, dislike, or mock anybody who tries to do these things (I recall myself being called coconut and other derogatory terms for daring to read). While I know I have had terrible disadvantages, the AAPI has had a long history of terrible harms they have quietly endured. The only thing is that Alison Collins didnt have a sympathetic audience or fans, she only had Twitter. We should hold up any group who studies hard and get others to be more like them, including Nigerian Americans. Afghan Americans in the Bay Area form the largest Diasporic community in the United States. i will not be silenced by people like YOU! I will try harder in the future. Its also interesting that the defenders of the murals at Washington High are so insistent that they should stay because a slave-owner wasnt really a racist. If Ms. Collins wants to give me a call and walk me through it, she has my number. Once again tragedy struck Allen in 1986. We belonged here! Otherwise, if youre new to the board, you have my vote. 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. If the Negro wasnt taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. In a sense, our tax dollars subsidize Israels public diplomacy directed at US taxpayers. The contempt that you display now makes sense in that you position yourself as an entitled commentator in this discussion as you have a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies. That is not textbook stereotyping racism. 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. Collins needs to go. Does anyone know about any news stories highlighting hate speech or bullying of Asian students? If the problem is white supremacy and white supremacist systems, several said, why level so much blame on Asians? Even in this discourse i dont think people are aware of how harmful it is that latin and african american are refered to as black and brown people a skin tone yet every other group is given cultural heritage identity of italian american or irish etc. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/us/san-francisco-schools-racism.html?searchResultPosition=3 Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message. 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. It is the path for academically-oriented low and middle income kids to get into a top college. The plane, according to History, was previously passed over by Aerosmith because the plane's crew made them wary. Maybe no English speaking guardians that could help with reading? Im not an expert, Latina, 1st gen, mestiza, grew up poor monolingual household, single parent, for whatever thats worth. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-again-used-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-blacks. Has Collins made one peep about that private school at taxpayers expense? The Stereotype Threat is when you are stereotyped, you end up becoming that stereotype. Hard work, deferred gratification, obsession with grades and test scores, saving, marriage, focus on child development all work. So now were back to laziness. The focus of the quote is to emphasize the crucial importance of solidarity in resistance, not to demean its subjects as ACTUALLY n***s. I dont care how strong a black woman she thinks she is, she has no standing to be calling Asian Americans house ni***s. News stories highlighting hate speech or bullying of Asian students, are less lazy whites! 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