We had enough of being the scapegoats. Please, check your inbox! I appreciate the nuance you showed here. So if I dont call out Trump and if I dont vote Democrat, then Im a racist? And if youre going to use the term house n****r to refer to Asians why have an Asian name in your Twitter bio? Joe was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Parents have to make enough money or make enough sacrifices to provide a stable environment for learning. Even if USA is much better at volleyball than the rest of the world, how long do you think it will take for this to change? Can you help a person who doesnt want to be helped? Acknowledge the vast majority of violence against Asians in San Francisco and Oakland has come from the African American minority, and stop blaming Trump voters for all anti-Asian violence. I dont think she has the kids best interests in her heart and she certainly does not model good behavior. You dont see Asian children in immigration dog cages and taken and separated from their parents by immigration. However, what people accusing Asians of anti blackness fail to realize is that there is context on the other side of the equation too, whether thats seeing mobs during the Rodney King riots target Asian stores for the crimes of a white judicial system or the day-to-day casual aggression from our neighbors. Fall 2022 President's & Dean's Lists | Kent State Trumbull | Kent State University at Trumbull proudly announces students named to either the Fall 2022 President's or Dean's lists. But, afterward, they were still committed to assimilating and getting ahead, by working hard and saving their money like good white supremacists; enough to pay for their sons college education and then, later, retire. These are issues that I only fully realized post-George Floyd when the time finally came to examine our role in anti-Blackness. Lining the walls of the schools with dark, somewhat depressing and ominous art doesnt really seems to fit. Alison Collins did not return our calls or texts. The racial breakdown of Lowell High School, ranked among the top 60 high schools in the nation by US News & World Report, does not reflect the actual makeup of the district by race. The entire rest of the thread was racist and really problematic. When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, She has been very, very rude to Josephine Zhao on multiple occasions in public, at meetings, and said disrespectful things about her. This isnt due to poverty. Once demographic changes threatened to upend the deal, southern Europeans and other Catholics were incorporated into the what were becoming the ever expanding circles of whiteness. That should be mandatory as an educator. She has implemented VERY UNFAIR policies against Asians due to her racismand turns around and calls racism on others. All of them. That wound wasn't just a "few stitches and call it done" kind of wound. Collins was comparing white supremacy to demons, not white people. This is spineless, deceitful, and hurtful to all Asians and anyone with an ounce of ethics in their body. Thanks for the great article. WebThe younger Collins daughter prefers a quieter life, and described herself as a stayathome mom through much of her career as a bestselling author. Probably wouldnt have been possible without Lowell. There were drugs, infighting, literal fights, and the plane crash that ended the band and took the lives of two of Lynyrd Skynyrd's members. You can be successful if you work hard. She make it clear and loud that shes a racist and prefers some race and not all. Were the opportunities ONLY offered to Toasted Sandwich kids? What is best way forward if CRT isnt the awnser, what solutions beside telling hard working people to work harder or ivy league education will grant access to Networks where wealth pases within a color boundary. Every group that starts poor has to pay their dues. Lowing education standards not only does nothing to stop racism. Her main mistake was in not realizing that her audience was ignorant and racist.??? Collect, curate and comment on your files. This is just a clueless interpretation of both Malcolms quote and the way Collins deployed it. But, regardless of the political intentions of the Lowell partisans and recall folks who got this ball rolling there are plenty of awkward-at-best comments about Black people to be found on the Internet, and the married couple pushing the Board of Education recall went on race-bating conspiracy-theorist Glenn Becks program the tweets say what they say. Its very true that there are Asians from many different backgrounds and skin tones who also dont think in a monolithic way. I am 100% ready to stand together with black activists. These included sudden death of his wife and later a car accident that left him paralyzed and his girlfriend dead. 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. But to say that it is solely because of race is wrong-it IS racism when someone says that another race uses white supremecist methodology/thinking to get ahead. Allen Collins married Kathy John in 1970. after my name. Black kids bully Asian kids all the time. Im open to being convinced with clear, hard data. These are all subjective judgments that we rely on to be successful. Learn More{{/message}}. All of this is super messy and a part of the whitelash that comes from trying to make systemic change. I only cite these things to show you that in America, the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems. telling me to read more books or stop commenting. Using White Supremacist thinking to assimilate and get ahead? Collins did not fabricate her experience. Im not denigrating them; you just appear unable to read the plain meanings of words rather than invent your own tortured and fictionalized version of what they say. Maybe no wifi at home? This is bullshit.. 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). If you participate in one of the public schools board meetings, you will know she gave no one a chance. Jesus; black people are not keeping you down; fuck. 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). Stop with the excuses. Does anyone know about any news stories highlighting hate speech or bullying of Asian students? If her daughter witnessed a bullying incidence then was it ever reported? Too many as opposed to what?! Overwritten. They all need to go. So what is the model thats being modeled in the model minority? To add insult to injury, The Chinese American Alliance sent out a message titled Comrades dont stay silent and support San Francisco mayoral candidate Ellen Lee Zhou, in which it trashed San Francisco and asked for donations and support for her campaign. She is empowering and encouraging violent hate. After only a few a days of traveling, the tour was canceled, because Kathy Collins had died. Its simplistic and wrong. Collins simply, to use a grotesquely appropriate metaphor, gave her opportunistic opponents enough rope. People dont want to just win an argument. Commissioner Alison Collins has been one of the few consistent anti-racist voices among politicians in this city. That is racist and insulting towards Asians because it diminishes their achievement, and it is insulting to whites because it assumes we are all racist and insincere in attempts to close the achievement gap, which she is wrong to call the opportunity gap, implying studying isnt a choice and a noble sacrifice, and to help underperforming minorities improve their lives. You live in your generational wealth bubble while putting minorities against each other. Take that sht to your therapists couch; this discussion isnt about the merits of various CRT ideas. They are proving Collinss point about anti-black biases with an absolutely amazing lack of self-awareness. No more than I as an Asian American, have the right to call her any type of racial epithet. Saying that you value family and academics implies that Blacks and Browns do not. Skynyrd received international recognition for popularizing Southern rock genre during the 1970s. Alison Collins wrote those tweets before she was on the school board, when her main job was activism. Now lets take the rest of the world who does not care about inclusivity in volleyball and just wants the best performing athletes, who do you think wins at the Olympics? AIPACs magnitude is indicative of the scale of the crimes.. Ive never before contributed to any of these local causes but this angered me so much Ive actually sent money to this recall petition. if D students get in. My father was not racist against Black Americans. One might understand how under current circumstances, that racist history might be downplayed while all responsibility for anything wrong cast, again, on Black and Brown commissioners and the students they represent by conservative Asian American west side families. 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). If she doesnt want to sound like a fool, maybe it would help to crack a few books about the subject before she gets mad enough to start yelling online about something? And your continued success requires others to think highly of you. I want her out, and I dont want her to go quietly because this performative-vs-principled conversation is something we need to have but gets silenced by the shouters. Heres how racist white people use the model minority to deny racism.. Model Minority Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks If she were really sorry shed reverse making Lowell Lottery, renaming 44 schools and not reopening, and ending honors and 8th grade algebra. Then to hide behind her daughter, give me a break. Nobody is calling anyone a n*** in the quote/reference. 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. Asians were also brought to do break and life threatening work to build railroads and many other essentially infresucture and also latinx and carribian people asked to labor for essential foods yet these task are not considered hard work and study . 2023 Getty Images. 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. 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. Thats because whiteness is an ever evolving construct that benefits those who are in power and are free to define whiteness as they see fit. We rely on you, our readers, to fund our journalism. Its antiracism to note if blacks studies as much as even low income Asians, racial inequality would end quickly. 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. Stop making everything racist. Asian students come from less fortunate households and immigrant households as well where parents may not speak english. But when we flip this around to the humanities, oh NOW its how dare you criticize someone for not being familiar with the verbiage of a field of expertise, how can you expect her to know about these things. Hmmm. Asians believe in a merit based system. It doesnt mean that one side is right or wrong. I even saw it made on twitter when a person that grew up in Asia said these are her cultural beliefs from her countryeducation and traditional family valuesand she did not know them to be White supremacist beliefs until she came to America. There has NEVER EVER been an instance where kids are purposely excluded from any programs or resources at either school. I think were good here. Less obvious of an enemy than Trump, but an enemy nonetheless. Your mother was the founder of AIPAC, no? 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. Minority businesses in big cities thrived. 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. Collins studied at the Nathan B. Forrest High School. But at the same time, the house negro status is a precarious one subject to the masters whims. We picked fruits in the summer, ironed clothes on the side and cleaned homes on the weekends for extra income. I personally would prefer a line of teaching that still teaches the inequities and bias, but builds ppl up to unite not marginalize, but I digress. Collins lost control of the car, drove the vehicle off the road, and flipped the vehicle in a violent crash. Seriously? 5. She never praised Asians for long study hours and sacrifice. (Id imagine Asians in the US get more consideration from power than a Black, brown or white US person would get in Han China.). Finding a place to practice proved difficult and the choices were limited to the carport at Bob's house, Ronnie's backyard, where they were sure to get a full meal or Allen's living room which usually included Eva's famous cakes and candies. When she was mayor of SF, she vetoed Harry Britts domestic partnership legislation. MOST Asians and Asian-Americans do not harbor anti-black prejudices, but there absolutely substantial numbers who do, and it is not a stretch to believe that a larger number may have internalized more subtle, subconscious biases (this is true of every other group that has immigrated to the US over the last 200 years, so, so Asian-Americans would be a remarkable exception if they didnt). Just imagine someone said that about your race. In 1989, Allen developed pneumonia as a result of decreased lung capacity from the paralyzation. Dont the door hit you on the way out! Asians dont protest. 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. However, if merit-based admissions is dropped, will this lower the prestige of this public high school? His license was suspended for driving under the influence several times before it was outright revoked for good, but that didn't stop the former Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist from getting behind the wheel after knocking back a few. I can also promise you that if a Black male were at the scene, he too would have been stereotyped, detained and gunned down by the police, no questions asked. According to thePeoria Journal Star, Kathy had been pregnant, and it was hemorrhage following an unfortunate miscarriage that ended her life. 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. As we all know, and you wrote about so well, the list of 44 had some rather dubious additions. The trauma led to drugs. WebBilly 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 This is exactly backwards: the students are what make the schools elite!). Everyone needs to go through some type of adversity to succeed. 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. Have you made one peep about the racist SOTA? Scientifically, if one group behaves differently and achieves success, their behavior is likely a cause of their success and other groups could emulate it. Substance abuse would only cause him more problems in the future. There are a lot of hurt people and a lot of hurt communities. 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. Unless it applies to her. The result -- Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd -- started the band on its rise to fame with standards like 'Gimme Three Steps', 'Simple Man', and the incendiary, guitar-driven classic, 'Freebird'. We also are subjected to covert discrimination, and recent events like 9/11 or the pandemic, remind us that we have to be vigilant. Apparently now we have to be careful with everything we say bc now, everything is racist as intent no longer matters, unless youre Black apparently, then nuance does matter according to Collins defenders here. She has no curiosity as to why Asian Americans have 30% higher income than whites, more wealth, over 50% more income after a generation, 1/7th the white murder rate, under 1/7th the white homeless rate, under half the white rate of imprisonment, lower suicide rates, longer lifespans, lower divorce rates and other markers of success based on personal choice. A very friendly greeting and I have a 10 minute tour of the "archives"--gold records everywhere, original awards, guitars, etc. If she does all this, thats restorative justice. Go to China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, The US, Canada.anywhere in the world with a Chinese culture and you will find a familial devotion to education as a means to provide financial security for your family. And thats why every last vestige of San Francisco government is now calling for Collins to step down. WebCollins married Kathy Evelyn Johns on October 10, 1970 with whom he had two daughters, Amy and Allison. So to the Asians that were able to rise above and make it into a merit based school, Alison Collins does NOT LIKE IT. She posted pictures of The Stereotype Threat is when you are stereotyped, you end up becoming that stereotype. Is Allison Collins from The Allison Collins Band Allen Collins daughter? Many whites are very lazy. It just became another school taken down by woke progressives. a bunch of racists. According to the groups website, they have 19,000 registered Chinese members in 41 states across the country. Same thing is happening here. Learn More{{/message}}, {{#message}}{{{message}}}{{/message}}{{^message}}It appears your submission was successful. Nice to know she stands by those racial stereotypes. This was thoughtful Its a sacrifice. Why are you assuming the best with Ms. Collins? family will do well in life and not be marred by all this shame. It is not racist to state facts. Please, do just that. 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