And if I then doubled down again and again that I was Very Accomplished and that I Worked Very Hard and Humbly to be a leader in my field and that my Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies entitled me to be taken very seriously about medicine, I would just sound like a clownish, arrogant, unbelievably lazy idiot. These are not good and pleasant times. Over the four years Skynyrd recorded, the memories gradually turned into legends. So now were back to laziness. Let me help you with some context: Asian Americans are the second most likely to vote Democratic after Blacks and overwhelmingly voted for Obama twice ad against Trump twice, so maybe Collins should take her head out of the 1960s and understand this os 2021, and her House N****r idiom is 60 years out of date. What if someone tweeted that insert Your race used white supremacy thinking to get ahead? 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. It is true, we do NOT see Asian children in immigration dog cages and ripped away from their parents. The only explanation that seems to make sense is that we, as Americans, have internalized and normalized anti-Asian racism. This is DISCRIMINATION and RACISM at its finest. Sorry, you simply do not understand these terms as they are used by people who think about and discuss race as a living, and should either read some books about the subject so you know what youre talking about or stop commenting. In a vacuum, her 2016 tweets could have been excused if she had showed genuine remorse for her behavior. No, we dont. 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). Zhous billboard was vile and a reprehensible political ad that invoked racist, misogynistic and sexist perspectives. Lynyrd Skynyrd had met a sudden, tragic end. she ought to teach all children to work hard and have the competitive spirit, and not go through life with an unearned free pass. (Claiming that Lowell or charter schools cream the best students isnt a knock on the STUDENTS; its a knock on the claim that the SCHOOLS are what make these students elite. why dont you work harder in life instead of By the definition you guys are provided why are Ados not running the county their community was brought here from Africa to do break backing work to build the county . (Collins Chinese name, , is pronounced in Cantonese as Go Lai Si. The first character, which is an actual Chinese last name, translates as tall or high. The second translates as to encourage. The last means to think. These are all words and notions that would figure to appeal to Asian voters looking at Board of Education candidates. Just imagine someone said that about your race. One final parable, as the emperor has now been revealed as wearing no clothes. 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. mb s comments only reflect his/her ignorance, arrogance and stupidity. So the masters responsibility for the spreading the disease is all but lost in the melee between the field negros and house negro. 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. 3. 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 Rossington-Collins Band debuted in June 1980 with the Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere album. Ever have one of those times where you forget what it was you were looking for when you got up but that it was really important that you write it down but by the time you find something to write with youve forgotten this importnt/juicy/sclerotic thought. The band existed till 1984. And she did not say all Asians. I imagine Catch-22 is in few of the libraries of the anti-Collins group. A house negro enjoys all the privileges of working in the masters house and would do anything to keep their position. Hey, my parents were fundamentalist Pentacostal hillbillies and they taught us kids everything but fear. mb, who is the real idiot? 2. This has become a litmus test of sorts. Collins was driven further into devastation and substance abuse. 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. So Allison Collins was way out of line. 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. How would you feel? And, that would be a correct assumption. She would have already been cancelled by the Woke Wave. 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. 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 are hurt and in pain, especially seeing her unapologetic face today. You are spreading lies. Grow your brand authentically by sharing brand content with the internets creators. This is whats in her heart. These are all dangerous precedents. The American work ethic postulates that if one works hard enough, one can achieve success. First we should all compliment Joe Eskenazi on the best piece of journalistic writing in this whole crazy drama its not easy sorting it out and there arent too many players talking to reporters these days. MERs commentary (March 25, 2021 at 4:37 am) is spot on. I share many of the sentiments expressed here on all sides, but it got pretty ugly at times. Can you readers believe teacher Joe used the word sclerotic in succeeding pieces? Kids should not be abused but must be prepared to handle a world full of pain. Has Collins made one peep about that private school at taxpayers expense? By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Im not an expert, Latina, 1st gen, mestiza, grew up poor monolingual household, single parent, for whatever thats worth. i know i cant change peoples warped perception Collins married Kathy Evelyn Johns on October 10, 1970 with whom he had two daughters, Amy and Allison. Kathy had a fatal haemorrhage during miscarriage of the couples third child in 1980. Her death devastated Collins. Personal tragedy struck again on January 29, 1986 when Collins new Ford Thunderbird crashed into a ditch. She married Vernon Eugene Allen in 1970. Furthermore, we want to highlight and remember how API and Black communities have historically and are currently working together in solidarity with each other against white racism. Surprised the Big Guy didnt show up at Safeway with a Recall petition. I think were good here. There has NEVER EVER been an instance where kids are purposely excluded from any programs or resources at either school. The systems and structures of power, the institutions that combine to reinforce white supremacy, have long controlled and enforced the constructed definition of whiteness. Not to mention the treatment of the Bantu in Somalia, or conditions in Nigeria, etc. She has implemented VERY UNFAIR policies against Asians due to her racismand turns around and calls racism on others. I can say that in the city hiring system of HR the positions are largely held by Asians. She has her intersectional cake, and shes eating it too. 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. As social worker i came in contact with asian and latin x and many poor brown and black.1 thing my experiance has taught me is that when we say things like work hard and achieve american dream it really hits differenty from immigrants community cultural knowledge and american descendent of chattle slavery. She has to go. as mentioned in Triple Package would be unique, so the goal is to get all Americans to behave more like all those groups and change their core beliefs, patriotism, work ethic and decisions. I received a class A education throughout my life yet I was in the dark on much of it until this past year. Your mother was the founder of AIPAC, no? If I study hard to get ahead, Im using white supremist thinking? Collins became proficient with the guitar quickly and soon formed his first band The Mods.'. Her hate must stop, our community is hurt. During a week-long stint at Funochio's in Atlanta, the band was discovered by the renown Al Kooper. He later plead no contest to DUI manslaughter. 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. 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. Berkeley. While the students couldnt read, they could understand pictures and repeat activities. Thanks so much for writing what you did, you are so right. She said many and there is a difference. She is doing a dis-service to those kids. And, regardless of newspapers blithely using the term racist tweets reductively transforming a complicated situation into a simple one, applying a metaphorical scarlet letter and minimizing the very real problems of systemic anti-Blackness the tweets say what they say. She needs to resign and spend some time thinking about how her selfish and divisive political agenda has been so detrimental to the real work that the board needs to do especially in this time. And, yes, they wanted to to assimilate and get ahead. My father picked strawberries in the sweltering sun, not complaining to the boss he was trying to get ahead; he and my mom were trying to make a life in America: assimilation? Things were looking up for Collins. Jesus; black people are not keeping you down; fuck. The accomplished AAPI is a doctor. Look, Bozo, Im not saying you have to agree with or like the field. No one wants to discuss the fact some races study more and try to fix it by convincing, selling kids on the idea hard work will pay off and it is your moral duty to show your content of character by studying hard, long hours, to be a good and improved person. The death threats were sent to an account called SFGAL8, not Collins and Lopez. There is prejudice here in San Francisco against communities of color and I can understand how the school board would like to see all kids in San Francisco have the same opportunities. Collins should go because her ideology unchanged since her tweets doesnt help students to actually get ahead. Collins first number of tweets were totally legit maybe controversial in some eyes, but important to find Asian-Am allies and to call out anti Black behaviors. Well played right winged SF parents and Madame Mayor. I just finished reading all the comments. On January 23, 1990, Collins succumbed to chronic pneumonia and was interred in Jacksonville, Florida, beside his wife. She is asking us to police our language while using her ethnic background as excuse to hurt others. Overall people just seem to get along with each other and having friends and acquaintances from all groups is the norm. None of us spoke out against Trump? Never mind about the subject at hand, you want to take the time to school people on YOUR situation and whatever situation Collins has experienced. When they got rid of 8th grade algebra in SFUSD 7 years ago the big claim was it would help black and Latino kids by not making them feel bad. An account was already registered with this email.Please check your inbox for an authentication link. You have to use the scientific method. And studying hard to get ahead in society is not white supremacist thinking. (Id imagine Asians in the US get more consideration from power than a Black, brown or white US person would get in Han China.). 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. We just hustled, prayed, and did the best we could. I should not be feeling what I feel because I do not understand the concept of white supremecy. Her skin color and gender doesnt give her the right to discriminate and belittle another race! This is all written in love to achieve a more equitable and fair SFUSD. If she had Id be open to restoration. We all should find a common bond to unite like being thankful that COVID rates are declining and our kids will be safe to go back to school soon. And you, MB, calling an accomished AAPI an idiot for believing in the American Dream bc she feels she is living it. Her career, public or otherwise, would be ruined. From my perspective saying the truth hurts diminishes the value shes put into her beliefs and priorities of working hard and sacrificing to become a physician and being grateful for the opportunity. Presumably, they have reasons for arranging their systems like this. You know why they bury regular fans 6 deep but bury Dodgers fans 10 under? According to Ultimate Classic Rock, Collins pleaded "no contest" to the DUI manslaughter charges. If she does all this, thats restorative justice. Good luck and good bye. Half of the people ranting here are doing so because they have no familiarity with the world of scholarship about race and no willingness to try to understand it, and the other half (like the one youre responding to) are racist wingnuts whove clicked over directly from the Breitbart/NYPost comments section purely for the purpose of posting rambling unreadable screeds about how critical race theory is the devil. All of this is super messy and a part of the whitelash that comes from trying to make systemic change. No, there are a large variety of answers. Ask most Asian American families who fit this scenario one question. Earlier in 1979, he performed at Volunteer Jam V at Skynyrds first stage performance since the plane crash. She is a disgraceful RACIST, and she needs to go. Black kids will attain equality by not having resentment, putting their heads down and working very, very hard. This is a moment we can seize and use to heal and grow. Its dehumanizing. From his earliest days Allen loved cars -- especially race cars -- and his favorite summer activity was going to Jacksonville Raceway every Saturday night to watch Leroy Yarborough race. She should be teaching kids nonwhite immigrants from 70 nations and 30 African Nation out-earn whites within a generation. America is a great nation most want to move to and a land of opportunity in the present. 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