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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. Wonder if youd be as reasonable in trying to defend a Conservative with comments a lot more ambiguous to interpretation as what Collins said? Heres a good Twitter quote: These lawsuits make good news headlines but dont do anything to help us remove the barriers that are keeping schools from opening. Alison Collins. 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. They quickly follow that up with something along the lines of, on balance so and so wasnt such a bad person. 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. Even the *reporters* who have been giddily covering this controversy have no interest in engaging with any of this stuff as context for their stories that would help readers make sense of what Collins meant; the level of sophistication that the average Chron journalist has on this topic is OOOH that lady used the n-word, that automatically means she did a racism.. 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. So with regards to Asian people, what defines one as a model minority (house negro) is their level of support for whiteness. I dont know you, you dont know me. The far left has tried to minimalize this but it is a moral imperative. WebThe younger Collins daughter prefers a quieter life, and described herself as a stayathome mom through much of her career as a bestselling author. Actions speak louder than words. Collins is not only a racist, but she and her defenders are agressive, condencending racista. Your long novel or a response showed exactly why you are a Collins supporter-you had to turn the whole situation into YOU YOU YOU! It can make a black family feel like a minority and very left out of this pretty prosperous city. 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. Cant you see how this rhetoric diminishes the confidence of those communities, while also stoking envious hatred towards other communities? Has Zhou been forced to resign from any city position or banned from any future political runnings, I think not. This is not prestige based on skimming. Same thing is happening here. Alison Collins wrote those tweets before she was on the school board, when her main job was activism. Or is your advocacy just for show? Its the truth that hurts. Bet thats on the year-end spelling test. She has to go. This just confirms that its ok for an Asian woman to pay to erect a billboard that depicted a racist scene and make racist comments but when a woman of color that is constitutionally protected gives her freedom of speech, the towns people are screaming for her blood. lololololololol i only have a Ph.D in Ethnic Studies ***for the purposes of having a tidy and illustrative hypothetical***, you dimwitted schmucko. Not to mention the treatment of the Bantu in Somalia, or conditions in Nigeria, etc. That should be mandatory as an educator. Does this represent everyone? You are a model minority by default. I dont even think the tweets are the strongest reasons for Collins to leave. 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. I find her Trump condemnation strangely tone-deaf. I dont think they are comparable at all. Pledge to care about kids as much as union reps or more in all policy. She did worse than carjack thousands because a stranger said something. Once again tragedy struck Allen in 1986. She took a few incidences and labels and entire race as that way. I worked with Plaintiffs Employment lawyers who would comment on how surprisingly educated their clients were. You assert this as if it were absolute fact. After healing up from the plane crash, he got together with Gary Rossington and other former Lynyrd Skynyrd bandmates and formed the Rossington-Collins Band. 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. Are you now OK to go ahead with cancelling Allison Collins? She doesnt want black kids to sacrifice and read summers and learn. We should try to get all kids to make the admirable effort Asian kids, on average, do make. Thats incredibly cruel! Were the pasta kids PREVENTED from taking the opportunities offered to them in school? what type of danger zone is needed for this exercise. 1822. Were all in this together but we no longer have the ability to discuss issues without hurt feelings, name calling and attempts to cancel each other. 30% could at least get all Bs, which means they are trying hard but maybe not working as hard as they could be, but were at least a decent human being and student. Collins is anti Asian as seen through her tweets and her actions. So if I dont call out Trump and if I dont vote Democrat, then Im a racist? Im by any measure very far left, but the fear for me was always that woke culture and was more performative than principled, and Collins pretty much personifies these fears. 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. He was 37 years old. Even though the server responded OK, it is possible the submission was not processed. His children Allison and Amy what you see today- a disturbing number of anti-asian. Maybe they learn the valuable skill of mentoring their more-average classmates, and maybe this experience also affords more opportunities for them to thoroughly master the material themselves. Allen's family grew with the birth of his daughter Amie followed quickly by Allison. What the far left is saying is that no one should have to sacrifice to get ahead, that its owed to people based on past sins. 1. Unfortunately, I doubt anyone is really going to take him and his friends seriously. 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. 1826. Surprised the Big Guy didnt show up at Safeway with a Recall petition. 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). So dont get offended at the implication on average Asian kids try harder in school. Lazier parents and kids embrace the easier, more fun choices. According to Zhao, she took herself out of the running. And Collins soon gave them little reason to be. Even when Gary Rossington and Dale Krantz quit the Rossington Collins Band, Allen continued on forming the Allen Collins Band in 1983. 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. 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. If you are impoverished, youre probably lazy. There is still no plan to bring back older students, the District will forfeit close to $20M because of it, and Collins is more concerned with herself than with educating the students. Here is where we get to varying opinions and we all have a right to form our own. I say that as a brown girl whose eyes were opened this year, and who now gets it. Latino kids went from 7 to 12% over 10 years based on increased study hours. The band existed till 1984. Hanging out, TV, video games, social media, conversations, etc. Maybe the elementary and middle schools Pasta kids went to didnt have as good funding and not as many programs? Yet NO ISSUES for the asian man; he was not detained for hours, stereotyped, NOTHING. If you are Black or Latino, you are guaranteed to NEVER pass your 6 month probation as you are looked at as not qualified in the first place, uneducated, a liar and a thief. I should not be feeling what I feel because I do not understand the concept of white supremecy. At a press conference denouncing the threats, there was no Jenny Lam, no Norman Yee, no Phil Ting, no David Chiu, no Sandra Fewer, no Jane Kim. She didnt get drunk and say something insulting to Asians which didnt represent what is truly in her heart. I have friends of all races. I believe the members on the school board were trying to fight for equity for the communities of color. We picked fruits in the summer, ironed clothes on the side and cleaned homes on the weekends for extra income. As America is dedicated to anti-racism, that is a serious threat and lives are ruined over accusations of racism. She was putting down white people and thats how I perceived it. In essence she RESIGNED when her anti-trans policies came to light. 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. Do not denigrate the curiosity, dedication, assiduous work ethic, talent of these Lowell students. This model minority stereotype is not something that is explicitly stated. This is the classic parable of ones chickens coming home to roost. I think all students regardless of color are capable of learningso why is it then? Did it matter then and does it matter now, that these two elected officials could overlook Zhaos transphobic remarks? What are Allen Collins childrens name and ages? ', and 'That Smell'. It also included Skynyrd members Billy Powell and Leon Wilkeson, in addition to female lead vocalist, Dale Krantz. Shaming Asian Americans for toiling to get to where we are today. The thinking is backasswards. Steve Gaines. Thanks for the great article. I will try harder in the future. 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. I can say that in the city hiring system of HR the positions are largely held by Asians. In 2019, non-Chinese candidates were barred from crafting non-phonetic translations of their names). Its the magical idea that one can achieve success simply by personal effort unassisted by anyone or anything else. Please, check your inbox! The reason she should resign is her advice keeps black kids down. Asian Americans were indeed on Trumps list. The plane, according to History, was previously passed over by Aerosmith because the plane's crew made them wary. The opportunistic targeting of Commissioner Collins distracts from the national conversation around addressing Anti-API and Anti-Black hate. That it is now OK for you to call somebody of a different race a ni***? Solving the problem required everyone tucking their rock and roll image under wigs for the wedding ceremony. Is this unity? Asian Americans study over twice as much as whites in California and thus earn more money and are more than 3x as likely to make a UC. Its the elephant in the room. According to Petersen, if these problem minorities would just shut and stop protesting and work hard, theyd be successful like them orientals. By Alison Collins standards, historical context doesnt matter. That was the prophet, Samuel giving marching orders to Israels first king, Saul. The revolution is not going to be started by academics or supporters of ruling-class parties, but by the masses they hold in contempt. Collins says her First Amendment Rights were violated after she received a vote of no confidence for posting derogatory remarks against Asian Americans. Stop making everything racist. I notice how you only mentioned Republicans in your post, as if Democrats were somehow innocent of the engaging the mechanics of capitalism to oppresses people, particularly the working class. WebAlison M. Collins (born 1969/1970) [1] is a former commissioner of the San Francisco Board of Education. They want to destroy their opposition in every way. This shows a really problematic way of thinking about Asians. Your mother was the founder of AIPAC, no? alison tried to openly shame her perceived asian enemies/competitors, but it backfired. Even if she was a victim in the past, it doesnt give her anymore right to hurt others. A house negro enjoys all the privileges of working in the masters house and would do anything to keep their position. Lam was there to support. Set aside the incendiary last tweet and the question of whether or not she was channeling Malcolm X for a moment. She doesnt belong on the school board. Im a African American and I am thankful I do not have any of my four children enrolled in the SFUSD! The band combined a signature rock sound with a country twang and produced singles that have inspired numerous covers. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. 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