Apologizing means you acknowledge how your words are perceived as hurtful to others. Other Asian American San Franciscans elected leaders, political activists, regular folks, twentysomethings, thirtysomethings, fortysomethings, seventysomethings, all politically liberal expressed a wide array of disappointment and pain. It fits the narrative of school sucks because they are surrounded by historical situations that suck, every day. But even if false, the idea is obviously not *crazy* on its face, and Lowell stans need to stop dismissing the idea out of hand without even engaging with the facts of student outcomes across the entire district. You people in San Francisco deserve each other. The physical wounds would eventually heal, but the psychological scars from watching his friends die while Collins survived would plague him for the rest of his life. Are you saying there are only white teachers and resources aides at schools? Black boys with fathers do far better than white boys without, so encouraging marriage, long study hours, reading, sacrifice and respect for hard work and the scientific method should be a hallmark of any decent educator. There has NEVER EVER been an instance where kids are purposely excluded from any programs or resources at either school. This is neither good nor pleasant company for Collins to find herself in. Viewing this story from New York is interesting. She is unfit to be on the board and would have been fired from the private sector long ago. While the students couldnt read, they could understand pictures and repeat activities. He was 37 years old. fell off. During a Board meeting to discuss Lowell, parents made the case that Lowell offers low income students a path to college that is a benefit to all SF residents. She doesnt acknowledge studying is a choice, with girls of all races studying more than boys of the same race in all cases. And they have the nerve to talk about White Privilege. i will not be silenced by people like YOU! Both he and his girlfriend were airlifted to the hospital. Never blame Trump voters without hard evidence. Acknowledge and change, not discriminate and unapologetic. Students of Japanese ancestry can score less than someone of Chinese ancestry. Donald Trump, whose been the embodiment of the American work ethic for decades, calls them losers to which they should be summarily fired. She was rightfully let go. Its the elephant in the room. Her tweets, no matter what she actually meant, would seem to fit perfectly in the criteria of those 44. She only goes after the asian-heavy school. Collins used a combination of drugs and alcohol to self-medicate as he tried to cope with significant trauma in his life both from the plane crash and the loss of his beloved wife. I dont know but I know there are MANY MANY variants. I think there is so much prejudice in San Francisco and it is mostly directed at communities of color. Are they blinded by their righteousness that they cant read the room at all? What a disgraceful, offensive, and pathetic woman. Her narrow academic use of the term is not widely accepted by the broader public and she knows this. First born with lots of friends & a southern accent including disma She clearly resents Asian Americans for believing in the American Dream and working harder, on average, than the average America. Enter the code you received via email to sign in, or sign in using a password. Did she not take introductory-level college logic? Carter called an era in his presidency as a great malaise. Eliminating merit or performance based admissions means that the schools do not want the kids to perform! His life after the plane crash was a slippery slope that connected one tragedy to the next. Even in this discourse i dont think people are aware of how harmful it is that latin and african american are refered to as black and brown people a skin tone yet every other group is given cultural heritage identity of italian american or irish etc. Her career, public or otherwise, would be ruined. i hope her At first, white was northern and western European immigrants of Protestant and Catholic descent. Her comments in 2016 shows her true self. Which hurts all kids. 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. For students who are high performing, there is an absolute benefit to being in classes with other high performing students, where the teachers do not need to stop and slow down to bring along the other students who are not at the same level. 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. 7. None of the discussions this year actually included community building or work toward solidarity. In all of her years as an elected official, she has never ridden in the Pride parade. And when. Maybe there wasnt tutoring at school? Why are you assuming the best with Ms. Collins? More than a few countries yes BUT NEVER a racial group. Full stop. She said many and there is a difference. Collins is not only a racist, but she and her defenders are agressive, condencending racista. 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. 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 So dont get offended at the implication on average Asian kids try harder in school. Collins is completely one-sided in her view of anti-Blackness among Asians. What does S.F. Thats incredibly cruel! White and Asian kids at most SF public schools are 8x as likely to be on a track to be a UC Grad. 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? The words that other people say mean whatever I want them to mean, and I am entitled to just make up my own silly, context-free interpretation of their words anytime I want without fear of criticism. 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. This is not the type of person that should be on the school board. I too want to know why are Asians afforded the privilege of choosing during their immigration process an American Name in addition to their Chinese legal name? I also think it was harder for the black community more than any other community because of systematic racism. Here's a little bit about the tragic life of Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist and founding member Allen Collins. There is no different standard for Japanese American vs Chinese American. If you still cant see why her use of that term to disparage an entire race is divisive, reckless and hurtful, especially in a contemporary context, please kindly join Ms. Collins in attending some sensitivity training as you two seem afflicted with the same disease. And that means having a basic understanding of the terms used by CRT so you can have an intelligent discussion about them, not bloviating away because you cant be bothered to absorb the actual perspectives of the people whose texts youre angrily responding to. It was interrupted when white supremacists imprisoned them in the Topaz, Utah concentration camp. I appreciate the nuance you showed here. Look, maybe some bias here as an old Lowell alum and a CCSF drop-out, but why are Lowells current demographics far less representative of SF population than the private college prep Lick-Wilmerding High School? You know Tiff when whites say and holler that there are too many Asians in the UC university system I dont hear too many asians opening their mouth the silence is deafeningoops cant disagree with god. Anyone defending and accepting this type of behavior and standing behind her ( Gabriela Lpez) must be removed! There are countless views of this and I am continually struck by the insights and angles coming from different people. Which teacher did she report it to? WebLarkin 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 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! No, we dont. My mom was a poor Chinese immigrant and my dad was was a poor working class White kid. His girlfriend died, and he was left paralyzed from the waist down. WebAllen's family grew with the birth of his daughter Amie followed quickly by Allison. And thats why every last vestige of San Francisco government is now calling for Collins to step down. The attitude some blacks have holds others down. Its also about opportunities that may not have been accepted/taken, it might also be about family/home life problems, it might also be about medical problems that affect learning, it might be about pop culture where being smart isnt always the coolest, its a lot of things. Keep this sort of stuff in museums or cultural centers, not places extended consistent work/ education. Perhaps its too much for Ms. Allison Collins to understand what she did was racist and put down all Asian American students, parents and teachers and unfairly stereotyped them and has made policy decisions against Asian Americans based on her hatred for all Asians. and our Because she doesnt think poor kids should study more hours. Shaming Asian Americans for toiling to get to where we are today. A good thing for them, and a bad one for Lynyrd Skynyrd. Its not always about racism. That could be the reason I was the only person in town to publish the Mohammed Cartoons (which I thought were dull). Its racism not to note. The otherwise thriving Skynyrd faced a sudden setback after the Convair CV-240 passenger aircraft boarded by its members on October 20, 1977 ran out of fuel and crashed into a forest in Mississippi. Shell never survive a recall effort now. If the Negro wasnt taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. It was a cruel act. The goal of these people like Collins and Lopez is to destroy what America stands for. She didnt call them the n word. Their latest album, Street Survivors, had just been released to critical and popular acclaim. Over the next few weeks they signed on Skynyrd survivors Billy Powell and Leon Wilkeson and other local musicians, although the choice of a lead vocalist for the new band remained a perplexing one. 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). 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. Her death devastated Collins. Her main mistake was in not realizing that her audience was ignorant and racist., ^ a true masterclass in how to win friends and influence people. Mission Local produces enterprise-reporting on SFs most critical issues: police reform, corruption, public health, housing and homelessness. People like this took Tom Sawyer out of school libraries. These are the Collins supporters and I stand in solidarity with AAPI offended here, but will not speak for them as they are more than capable of expressing themselves. 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. 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. delusions. 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). Despite the origin of the term, and how the media and a few individuals want to dub the comparison of Asians to HNs as the racism in her tweets (although her statements seemingly gaslights the implication that we are our peoples stereotype submissive), the primary outcry is based on the fact that her problem about a school was that there were TOO MANY ASIANS in the first place I mean, WTH? She called everyone not agreeing with her RACISTS! People have since said that she seemed "slow," but I What if someone tweeted that insert Your race used white supremacy thinking to get ahead? 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. 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. Its rich that the progressives who swept the likes of Abraham Lincoln under the rug as dishonorable racists in the school-renaming fiasco are now calling for forgiveness and historical context for a contemporary racist. Because Collins is not wrong!! Have folks forgotten the racist and stereotypical mural Ellen Lee Zhou put up in SF of Mayor London Breed. To get offended at the concept someone is calling black kids lazy, the black community has to radically transform and stay married as much as Asians, marry before having kids, save, pool resources, and spend as many hours studying. It didnt take much to get on that list, even if the action didnt actually happen. Its never an ideal situation when extreme partisans call the tune and make everybody dance. Collins must resign! A house negro enjoys all the privileges of working in the masters house and would do anything to keep their position. it said it all. Allison Collins is confirming the very worst stereotypes about black people- that they will drag down anyone who does well in school with the acting white label. 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. So cute. Is this truth you speak of going to make a better place for all of us? JACKSONVILLE, Fla. . Time is beyond up for Washington, Lincoln and all the troubling individuals after whom some SFUSD schools are named. When conservatives play race politics, they do so awkwardly and clumsily. Kids who choose to study choose not to hang out, watch TV, talk, play video games, or go on social media. 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