family will do well in life and not be marred by all this shame. Black and brown people are leaving that were integral parts of our community. 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. Meritocracy has roots at least as far back as Confucius before they were even deeply exposed to European culture. Or do we think she is so awful she needs to go so we get someone better? There are countless views of this and I am continually struck by the insights and angles coming from different people. I dont even think the tweets are the strongest reasons for Collins to leave. alison tried to openly shame her perceived asian enemies/competitors, but it backfired. Who are stereotyped as hard working? His life after the plane crash was a slippery slope that connected one tragedy to the next. What are Allen Collins childrens name and ages? We are fed up with her discrimination! This is exactly backwards: the students are what make the schools elite!). 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. However, then she started stereotyping an entire community as being less than woke. She referenced Trump, no political figure in this country can get away with what Trump does. Give us a hand and lets rise up together. Honestly, those assumptions border on racist views of what Asians are, and she expressed them as a private citizen What else does she say about Asians when shes in private citizen mode? What kind of mind and character demands that? I dont think this detail is going to placate anyone. The entire rest of the thread was racist and really problematic. 3. 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. Alison Collins wrote those tweets before she was on the school board, when her main job was activism. And furthermore, SOTAs student body is 37% white, vs 11% for te district as a whole. Her main mistake was in not realizing that her audience was ignorant and racist.??? Asian kids study an average of 13.8 hours a week and study summers. well, lets just say my life was threatened. Collins uses this type of inflammatory rhetoric constantly. I should not be feeling what I feel because I do not understand the concept of white supremecy. If you were really true believers in the idea of equality, you would be trying to fix the issues in the public schools rather than hiding in private schools. If I, a non-doctor, were to spout off in a public forum with a sentence like You better not take that vaccine, its going to alter the genetic conformation of the omega-5 fatty acids in your body and give you chronic Lyme disease, I would be roundly and justifiably ridiculed by people with expertise in medicine. ), and give students what they REALLY need to excel instead of HANDICAPPING the education system. Its a small subset. Nothing, serious no blood or broken bones but it made the other kids laugh at the student who suffered the mishap. Absolutely not. I have hereby decided that Herman Melvilles Moby Dick is a light comedia dellarte about the game of golf cool, okay, got it. His mother would work all day at a cigar factory and did a job in the evenings at Woolworths to meet ends. Everyone can easily be for funding parks and playgrounds and kiddies and sea walls. The band existed till 1984. There would not be any opportunity for articles like this one analyzing context or motives. You commenters are too smart for your own good. Its racism not to note. Shell be more honorable and As Americans, we are so wholly UNAWARE of the true history of this nation and the very purposeful barriers put in place to keep Black Americans down. I have a nonwhite wife and kids and have been a minority most of my life, nearly all of my friends are nonwhite, mostly black and Latino. She clearly resents Asian Americans for believing in the American Dream and working harder, on average, than the average America. In a sense, our tax dollars subsidize Israels public diplomacy directed at US taxpayers. The drugs led to the car accident. 3/4 or more of Black and Brown students in SFUSD cant pass their state proficiency exams. So they figured, Asians are overrepresented b/c they do well on the tests.. so the only way to get more blacks in is to eliminate the admissions test. Subscribe today to get Mission Local's stories delivered directly to your inbox. David. 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? I for a fact know that systematic racism and bias plays a hand at the lack of support and resources provided to Black students compared to other races. Yall really need to learn nuance. (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. This early band, first called My Backyard, then the Noble Five also included drummer Bob Burns and bassist Larry Junstrum. dont call me doctor, unless you are a patient who is a baby, toddler or adolescent. 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). Having lived the past 20 years in the Hawaiian Islands gives me a different perspective than some. 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. Thats different. I dont think she has the kids best interests in her heart and she certainly does not model good behavior. This was thoughtful You should be just as ready to call out racism from your friends as your enemies. The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have. But instead of solidarity, this was the highest profile response by Chinese American parents to Black families at SFUSD: https://repository.uchastings.edu/faculty_scholarship/395/. After signing a record deal with MCA subsidiary Sounds of the South, Skynyrd entered the studio with Kooper producing. (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. This is a moment we can seize and use to heal and grow. What are the disadvantages of a clapper bridge? Collins's injuries from the crash included broken vertebrae and a wound to his arm, according to Rolling Stone. Kids who choose to study choose not to hang out, watch TV, talk, play video games, or go on social media. These are all dangerous precedents. 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. By the way, growing up, I have been called racial slurs by Caucasians, Latinos, Middle Easterns, other Asians, and yes, even African Americans? Blacks can be poorer for any of 3 reasons. Yeah, sure, the CRT crowd accepts these definitions; but, not the rest of the 99.9% of us who see through this. 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. Lets keep it REAL here. Collins simply, to use a grotesquely appropriate metaphor, gave her opportunistic opponents enough rope. She is unfit to be on the board and would have been fired from the private sector long ago. have more self respect!! I am sure Lowell students are very bright and work very hard. Sorry, you simply do not understand these terms as they are used by people who think about and discuss race as a living,. Afghan Americans in the Bay Area form the largest Diasporic community in the United States. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Asian cultural commitment to education predates US History by a millenia or two. They dont want to have that conversation because lots of the people making the loudest stink about Collins, in fact, harbor those very same attitudes! Dial down the very palpable contempt, your academic privileged is showing. In her head, she is advocating for AAPI and those defending her believe this to be true. My parents were the help.. So, the uniformity here is not surprising. So to the Asians that were able to rise above and make it into a merit based school, Alison Collins does NOT LIKE IT. Her tweets, in my opinion, are not fighting words toward Asian Americans. Do not assume that all these families if students are lucky enough to have families are leveraging privilege to just get a private school education on taxpayer dollars. Are you now OK to go ahead with cancelling Allison Collins? Those with 40k or 50k a year per kid get elite high schools, but 35% of Lowell on Free Lunch dont. It sounded like she is hiding behind her daughter and taking potshots at Asian Americans. Web partisans unearthed some low-hanging fruit, the mainstream media picked up the story, and Collins was quickly irradiated and weaponized. 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). Minority businesses in big cities thrived. the term white supremacy in my opinion, is real only to the perpetrator, self flattery, wishful thinking, no more. Floyd Thursby, just now read your reply from last year. Their latest album, Street Survivors, had just been released to critical and popular acclaim. Then to equate Asians as house Ns who align to white supremacism ideology shows total ignorance of Chinese history. When she was mayor of SF, she vetoed Harry Britts domestic partnership legislation. never found any evidence to support that except for the Josephine Zhao apologized and dropped out after her comments were reported. To relegate that as just being a group to taunt, be more like, call a wedge, and continue to make fun of here knowing all of this is so heartbreaking and damaging to the community. 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. Black kids study less than whites, are 4 years behind in reading by 12th grade, 5 behind Asians, and parents are less likely to teach the kids to read. Rather, parents want to have their children rewarded for excelling in school. Try listening. Asian Americans have a long history of schooling and testing that way predates any notion of White Supremacy, or White people as an identity. Otherwise, if youre new to the board, you have my vote. Your email address will not be published. Vote to reverse making Lowell a lottery which punished many families who had worked very hard to prep their kids to gain admission to an elite school. Time is beyond up for Washington, Lincoln and all the troubling individuals after whom some SFUSD schools are named. Both are true. Allen Collins married Kathy John in 1970. Because Collins is not wrong!! Again, I have gone to SFUSD schools growing up in SF, my kids were also enrolled in under-privileged area schools in SF where more than 75% of children are under privileged. Subscribe today and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox. Ive not been a fan of Collins. In 2019, non-Chinese candidates were barred from crafting non-phonetic translations of their names). No, this is dumb. San Francisco should pay tutors for every poor kid, 3 hours a week, and make it mandatory for anyone living in public housing in SF. 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. She punished thousands of people at Lowell for this. Heres how you can summarize this story and most of the comments: Please, Allison, please, please, just apologize for making (not) racist remarks. She didnt get drunk and say something insulting to Asians which didnt represent what is truly in her heart. 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. Why are you leaving it up for this queen to waste her time in explaining shit. It is then, an honorary white person position will be bestowed upon the loyal Asian. That is not textbook stereotyping racism. Also- the opposition to renaming schools is not nobody is perfect. Hey, my parents were fundamentalist Pentacostal hillbillies and they taught us kids everything but fear. The Stud, W. H. Allen (London), 1969; World Publishing, 1970. Comparing white people to demons is beyond the pale. Asian Americans are sick and tired of her belittling!!! White, Asian, Black or other. I think were good here. She is equating academic success with acting white, which is the most destructive thing a black parent could do. Yes, hard work and admissions into top tier universities can lead to increased earnings, but not every Asian American is thriving. The problem is that many Asians have internalized the model minority stereotype as evidenced by the responses here. I think those on the school board are fighting for the underdog and finally trying to end some white supremacy practices. Those defending her on the grounds that Asians are racist against African Americans wake up. But it was also a political miscalculation. Has Zhou been forced to resign from any city position or banned from any future political runnings, I think not. And it warrants mentioning and unambiguously mentioning: It is not racist for a Black woman to call out anti-Blackness. She is doing a dis-service to those kids. Streamline your workflow with our best-in-class digital asset management system. Our meeting ended when I said, Sam, were Israel not committing crimes, there would be no need for AIPAC. Nearly all would choose B, trauma included. Years after Collins death, on March 13, 2006, Skynyrd was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida. How convenient, but waitthen Joe Rogan does the same thingquoting folks using the n word, but gets all but cancelled by the liberal left. Jan. 25, 1990 12 AM PT. Do we agree her lawsuit is offensive and completely self-defeating? If the hiring manager is Asian and you are a person of color you can forget about getting the position. Perhaps Ms. Collins should ask the Asian American community before she speaks on our behalf. Ive been to numerous police brutality protests and Asians are like unicorns. Collins, daughter of musician Phil Collins and actress Jill Tavelman, wore a stunning high neck, long-sleeved lace gown. Keep this sort of stuff in museums or cultural centers, not places extended consistent work/ education. This saw him garnering several collectible and performance cars later in his life. We have 10 people who want to live in housing that would go for 3000 a month on the free market, so we should say, we dont require money, but you have to be willing to sacrifice, assimilate, attend tutoring and do everything you can to break the cycle of poverty or someone else can live in your highly desirable public housing. Allen's parents had recently divorced and times were tough for Allen, his sister and mother. During the 1987 Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute tour Allen served as musical director -- selecting the set lists, arranging the songs and setting the stage. Urge all African American kids to admire and learn from the sacrifice of 10,000 hours over a childhood Asian Americans make over whites, and do make any sacrifice to emulate them and study those hours to eliminate poverty. The plane crashed in the woods next to the Mississippi River while attempting an emergency landing because they ran out of fuel. Most black parents dont believe kids should make the tremendous sacrifices necessary to get into Lowell under the old system, do whatever it takes to get all As, say no to fun, to church, to TV, to family time, to friend time, to video games, to sports, to social media, to get better grades. If someone tweeted that and used YOUR race in the tweet, you would understand. Collins rushed the change in Lowell by 8 months because someone, nobody knows whom, said something on a blog that is racist. She doesnt belong on the school board. The same is true of other Asian refugee groups that have been resettled in this country compared to those who are voluntary migrants. WebHere is Allen's wife, who he had his two daughters Amie & Allison with, Kathy in yearbook of Robert Lee HS. Intuitively, it sounds like it could be true. We need to be more civil there is a lot of intelligence in these responses and we can all make our fiercest points without getting personal and mean-spirited. Then it all fell away at 6000 feet above a Mississippi swamp. Joe has his facts right, strikes a tone that fits a combination of objectivity and amazement at where this has gone, and jumps in to respond to readers. Maybe you, as an Asian-American should take time off your busy life and stand in solidarity, unite and work with your fellow African-American citizens for justice for all. We are ourselves and we know exactly what to feel and think when we see a racist. For all of the mostly white, wealthy families advocating so much for antiracism, why are your kids attending private schools? His second daughter is Allison who was born in 1973 or 1974. I share many of the sentiments expressed here on all sides, but it got pretty ugly at times. Calling merit white supremacy is such an inane concept coming from anyones mouth. Very interesting and informative to read this article and all the comments. It is that we cannot judge a historical person using todays standards. Pasta loving kids should be let in-not based on merit, but based on the fact that they happen to love pasta? What your parents did is no big deal so-blacks have been doing that shit for years ..ok do they escaped from their homeland to come here for a better life from the same people that bombed, murdered and destroyed the infrastructure of Loas,killing babies ,young children,women animals destroyed the forest poisoned the waters , destroyed the rice fields etc,etc but everythings great because you got a little tech job..you are not concerned about what Ms Collins said youre just jumping on the white band wagon of hate. And she did not say all Asians. Wrong, beneath her, and shes paying now. Everything about the greatest Southern rock band that tragically came to an end in October, 1977. Its a shame that the likes of Allison Collins is what passes as representative of progressive San Francisco. if D students get in. Cookie Notice Feinstein is being cancelled and the school name will be removed. The fact of the matter is, is that the tweet was racist. His She attacks Lowell for having the wrong demographics and being merit based, but sends her own daughters to SOTA, which is merit based and has just as disproportional demographics. Collins married Kathy Evelyn Johns on October 10, 1970 with whom he had two daughters, Amy and Allison. Our problems will never be solved by the white man.. Does Ms. Collins ouster send a message ( I doubt it as weve been firing people over this for decades and it still happens)? 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. Asians are model minorities which is a euphemism for house negro. It included most of the Rossington Collins Band members excepting Krantz and Rossington and released the album Here, There & Back in 1983. Collins must go for the good of SFUSD. Both my parents graduated from Lowell and went on to Berkeley. April 19, 2017 Bassist Larry Junstrom also joined in. According to the groups website, they have 19,000 registered Chinese members in 41 states across the country. Not one peep. 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. So white students are 3X overrepresented at SOTA. This is neither good nor pleasant company for Collins to find herself in. She literally calls anyone who thinks Lowell provides poor students in SF a high quality college prep program on par with SI, University et al. 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. This is just a clueless interpretation of both Malcolms quote and the way Collins deployed it. Nigerian Americans, and most African immigrants, are less lazy than whites in school and parenting. She wont do this because she is extremely narrow minded and hateful. If whites are caught being racist, by all means prosecute them, but to claim all whites are racist without proof and to destroy Lowell is indefensible. I also think it was harder for the black community more than any other community because of systematic racism. The simplest explanation is that Allison Collins is a racist who dislikes Asian people. I dont know but I know there are MANY MANY variants. However, while the school district is 40% Asian American, not all Asian Americans thrive academically. I can understand that there are definitely challenging problems in my community that need to be addressed and speaking for myself I could see how disadvantaged I was merely bc my family and community did not know better bc their focus was on survival by the day having grown up poor themselves and although it was said go to school nobody in my community knew how to successfully enter a profession or, frankly, college. She is basically implying an Asian American who owns a nice home and has a high income and net worth is still, because of a hidden white supremacist subculture no one discusses, beneath a white child in a rural setting with a single mother on fentanyl, meth or heroin, in public housing, on 3 generations of welfare, without a father, getting poor grades and facing a life of poverty. Democrats are pro Capitalistic and want to pass the buck to working class whites. 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. 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. The band, for being as famous and talented as they were, had more problems than any "Simple Man" would find bearable. Sign in with a password below, or sign in using your email. Commissioner Faauuga Moliga was present. She doesnt acknowledge studying is a choice, with girls of all races studying more than boys of the same race in all cases. Since Asians think theyre pretty smart, they get pretty arrogant when new information is presented that contradicts their worldview. In 2006, every last vestige of the City Family lined up to decry newsman Pete Wilsons harangue regarding gay supervisor Bevan Dufty and his lesbian friend Rebecca Goldfader having a child. Collins is absolutely right about us benefiting from this model minority myth! This privilege is NOT afforded to Nigerians, Latinos, Trinidadians, Africans, Iranians but to Asians. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. . What about vice versa? We cant make her be contrite.. They are proving Collinss point about anti-black biases with an absolutely amazing lack of self-awareness. Because, deep down, Dodgers fans are good people. 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. 2021, is the year we speak up. and family. Not because of using the N word. If the esteemed doctor is going to start popping off while cluelessly not understanding the meanings of the words shes criticizing (because shes too ignorant/lazy to familiarize herself with the world that Collins comes from), well, thats her right, but she sounds like a fool. But to lump us all into the same group as some teenagers who made fun of some kid in her daughters school? All I see are Latino and Afro Latino and children in these dog cages mistreated. In 1989, Allen developed pneumonia as a result of decreased lung capacity from the paralyzation. Collins sounds pretty hateful towards Asian-Americans, to be honest. I ask, wheres the protection for the Black and Latino community. I doubt Ms. Collins would take to that lightly, but thats EXACTLY what she did. They have to study 10,000 more hours over a childhood than now and spend 10,000 hours less relaxing. And then, its defended unapologetically by Collins and the rest of the Board, and said historical context, nuance were not going to used in the judgements. Check the tweets again! Thanks for the great article. After several years of recovery, the crash survivors felt the time was right for another try. There has NEVER EVER been an instance where kids are purposely excluded from any programs or resources at either school. shaming yourself? So if the gatekeepers in charge think poorly of you, even if they are in fact wrong, you will not achieve success. This change set the Rossington Collins band apart as they entered the 1980s. Hard working vs lazy. She is a terrible person who implemented cruel policies which hurt Asians who worked very hard and sacrificed, and never openly called on blacks she was claiming suffer to study longer hours to match the effort of the Asian Americans who were working hard for that Lowell. Pledge to care about kids as much as union reps or more in all policy. Like yesterday. addendum to my earlier post: A community forum, pass the mic around, have Ms. Collins sit with those she hurt and be part of the solution. 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. Im told the idea of killing me was broached at an SFSOS meeting. I supported the intent behind the renaming, but they bungled the politics in a ridiculous step-on-rake way. That if we do not unite in solidarity (Black, Asian, Hispanic), we all remain n-words. Character was important as evidenced by Martin Luther Kings famous speech. Jim, you need to stop. 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. In 1970, Allen married Kathy Johns. So even those who feel secure in their whiteness may not be so secure once the definition is sharpened and you get excluded. THIS IS RACIST coming from Chinese and the Chinese American Alliance. Immigrants from asian being given choice to american name is something i never questioned but after just a little research into migration policy we see there is a racialized component in how color plays a role down to asking if hispanic is non white or black &i dont think its easy to ask afghan immigrant to be aware that there a two diffent america the one they see on tv and that is supposed granting them asylums would be treating its own citizen often just as bad or worse that the country they are fleeing . 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