These tweets continued, however. When Commissioners Collins and Lopez were receiving death threats because of their positions on Lowell High School, there was a stunning silence from SFs current or former elected Asian American officials. Its inconceivable that many Nigerians, Jews, Mormons, Chinese, Indians, Koreans, Lebanese, Persians etc. Not one peep. Scientifically, if one group behaves differently and achieves success, their behavior is likely a cause of their success and other groups could emulate it. 2. These are all dangerous precedents. His Once, doing field research at Clemson we were working with a class of students who were morons at best, the genius teacher on site had rigged up a series of motor responses to flash cards to teach work skills. Driving near his home in Jacksonville, Allen crashed his car in an accident which killed his girlfriend and left him permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Can you provide more information about what you a referring to? Not only is that racist, but woefully ignorant. It just became another school taken down by woke progressives. Commissioner Jenny Lam has spoken up in support if students best interests and us aligned with you on these issues. Hey, my parents were fundamentalist Pentacostal hillbillies and they taught us kids everything but fear. Collins is absolutely right about us benefiting from this model minority myth! Sadly, neoliberal, identity politics as practiced these days offered up a political target that conservatives could not decline to engage on. Really!! Absent some feel-good bond measures, its hard to recall a municipal shield wall quite this tight. She could use Twitter and other mediums in a positive and constructive way but she chooses not to. That school is 37% white. 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. I find it intriguing that I havent seen a simple point anywhere. She dismissed Triple Package as white supremacist. She hurt thousands of Asian Families by destroying Lowell, and many girls who study longer hours than boys. And when members of their communities DO thrive but DARE to point out problems standing in the way of real change, they are maligned and punished. I dont think they are comparable at all. The goal should also be to get those whites to study more hours, marry, save, etc. Immigrants from Africa outperform whites because they have an open mind and believe effort pays off. Heres how you can summarize this story and most of the comments: Please, Allison, please, please, just apologize for making (not) racist remarks. Long considered one of rock's premier guitarists, Allen Collins served as heart to Ronnie VanZant's soul in Lynyrd Skynyrd. Its the elephant in the room. I did not call her an idiot for believing in the American Dream, youve just completely made that claim up with zero textual evidence. This Censorship/cancel/Culture weakens a language in my opinion which is generally speaking, my favorite. I dont think youd find many Asian American families who would choose A. Larkin Allen Collins Jr. (July 19, 1952 January 23, 1990) was one of the founding members and guitarists of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and co-wrote many of the band's songs with late frontman Ronnie Van Zant. We are finally in a climate where more of the mainstream is actually (supposedly) listening to Black voices. 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. The opportunistic targeting of Commissioner Collins distracts from the national conversation around addressing Anti-API and Anti-Black hate. Ms. Collins demands that others agree to her bizarre premises before she will have a conversation with them. And thats why every last vestige of San Francisco government is now calling for Collins to step down. Do not dismiss the multiple jobs and sacrifices that many immigrant or poor families make to send their kids to Lowell. Scholars study these subjects **for their jobs** and they have accepted meanings for terms like white supremacy. If you want to talk about race and not sound like the idiot that youre sounding like right now, you owe it to yourself to familiarize yourself with their work. Less hateful, less bigoted. Her death devastated Collins. lololololololol i only have a Ph.D in Ethnic Studies ***for the purposes of having a tidy and illustrative hypothetical***, you dimwitted schmucko. It is totally ignorant for her to equate academics with White Supremacy. Lam was there to support. What then is the difference if I cite crime statistics and call all Blacks felons and drug dealers? If you participate in one of the public schools board meetings, you will know she gave no one a chance. Collins tweets hit the mainstream at the height of a wave of anti-Asian hate crimes, presumably fueled by use of terms such as Kung Flu and Chinese Flu by Trump and his gang. Allen's unique, firey guitar playing and powerful songwriting helped insure Lynyrd Skynyrd's place in rock and roll history. She isnt sorry at all. So to the Asians that were able to rise above and make it into a merit based school, Alison Collins does NOT LIKE IT. There was even a 2010 article from SF Gate called dirty secret of black on asian violence is out, What she said was wrong. We should try to get all kids to make the admirable effort Asian kids, on average, do make. Commissioner Collins has been in solidarity with API communities in our school district and done the work in sponsoring resolutions for Art Equity, Equity Studies, and an API student led mental health initiative. But when Black voices are too explicit about their experience, we are punishing them?! Has Zhou been forced to resign from any city position or banned from any future political runnings, I think not. By October 20, 1977, Skynyrd's songs had become radio staples. 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. And those who oppose renaming schools have made it a core tenet of their defensive position that no one is perfect, no historical subject is without fault. Set aside the incendiary last tweet and the question of whether or not she was channeling Malcolm X for a moment. 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. Thank you for acknowledging that CRT is a (profitable) industry. Why is it that racism coming from the left complicated while racism from the right is clear as day? 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. So Allison Collins was way out of line. None of the discussions this year actually included community building or work toward solidarity. She also attacked Lowell because a Pakistani American Senior made a slightly awkward poster. That shows Asian kids are 4x as likely to have parents who made a sacrifice of several hundred hours. She said simply (and I will never forget it because it keeps being so true) well, you know theyre really rather stupid, and that always catches up to them.. 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. Totally and completely agree with Jim Ausman. Those on the field doing hard labor had it harder, but at the end of the day, they were all still slaves and the persons position in the home was tenuous. 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. But Collins protestations that her comments were being taken out of context befuddled the Asian Americans who subsequently reached out to her (as did her apology not for what she said, but for how it was received). Asian students come from less fortunate households and immigrant households as well where parents may not speak english. Allison is related to Cindy R Collins and Catelyn Renee Edwards as well as 1 additional person. By the way they are also taxpayers. After only a few a days of traveling, the tour was canceled, because Kathy Collins had died. Thats incredibly cruel! The thinking is backasswards. 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. Allen Collins was at the genesis of Lynyrd Skynyrd when he joined lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and fellow guitarist Gary Rossington as long ago as 1964 to form against Asian-American families. Shame on this racist sham Allison Collins! 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. 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. Especially if it is a high paying position. His life after the plane crash was a slippery slope that connected one tragedy to the next. 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. Also- the opposition to renaming schools is not nobody is perfect. Theory #3 is effort. Solving the problem required everyone tucking their rock and roll image under wigs for the wedding ceremony. She wasnt providing a nuanced perspective on race relations based on Malcolm Xs speech, she was slandering another race. 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. Dont the door hit you on the way out! 3. that stems from a sinful heart, but do not impose your will on people who dont agree with you, now or ever. Thank you Gustavo for your clear thinking and helpful words! The problem with her Tweets is that we are now in 2021, not 2016. The Knebworth Fair '76. Through all the degrees and academics, you all have forgot how to carry on adult conversations. Cookie Notice We cant make her be contrite.. I hope that we can move on from this saga as a city. We cant even bring ourselves to call it what it is. 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.. Collins became proficient with the guitar quickly and soon formed his first band The Mods.'. In recognition of an extremely high level of academic excellence, a President's List is compiled each academic semester. If she gets away with this then what message are we sending to the school kids? This shows a really problematic way of thinking about Asians. We heard her over and over again Too Many Asians! Did it matter then and does it matter now, that these two elected officials could overlook Zhaos transphobic remarks? The SAT/ACT is being phased out by 1,600 colleges and universities in this country in the meantime during the pandemic. Is this the San Francisco school board leadership! He did it and I think that she has a nuanced view of race relations. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. The trauma led to drugs. Asians just shut up, get to work and make that money. 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. Her comments to me, as someone who is part Asian American (Afghan/South Asian), generalize an entire community. But how can we as Asian leaders defend her when she doesnt give us anything? And they veered into places that many Asian Americans I spoke to felt were, if not racist, still harmful playing into longstanding stereotypes about Asian Americans in a casually broad and reckless way. Stop with the excuses. Enjoying the misfortune of others seems to cut across many barriers, including intelligence. They are an emotion-infused plea to step UP. WebAllen's family grew with the birth of his daughter Amie, followed quickly by Allison. You dont see Asian children in immigration dog cages and taken and separated from their parents by immigration. How would you feel? Yet NO ISSUES for the asian man; he was not detained for hours, stereotyped, NOTHING. For Collins not to acknowledge why so many Asian Americans, including former allies and endorsers, would react so strongly, for her not to pick up on the raw pain Asian Americans are feeling now this is more than a political miscalculation. But how ironic it is that she sends her kids to a merit based entrance school. People dont want to just win an argument. If the Negro wasnt taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. 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.