Many whites are suffering also, mostly due to poor choices and behavior. i am thankful that i can voice my opinion without being told to shut up by know it alls and delusional authorities on issues that concern us all. He got his first Silvertone guitar and amplifier from his mother and started playing the guitar at age 12. Most Asian parents do, or at least a higher percentage. Collins intentionally abuses and misuses the term white supremacy. We are finally in a climate where more of the mainstream is actually (supposedly) listening to Black voices. Its not okay for a black woman to put others down. Allen's unique, firey guitar playing and powerful songwriting helped insure Lynyrd Skynyrd's place in rock and roll history. Ive been to numerous police brutality protests and Asians are like unicorns. We all know about the Black Lives Matter Movement and what it stands for. Larkin Allen Collins Jr. was born on July 19, 1952, at St. Lukes Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, US. Pledge to care about kids as much as union reps or more in all policy. Their foreign policy seems fixated on out of context Middle East history, yet they seem unconcerned with active Black African slavery in Mali, Sudan, Mauritania and, recently, Libya. We have to think about how different communities learn and the different biases. What are the disadvantages of shielding a thermometer? Instead of changing how school admissions should go, they need to focus on raising the level of the students to meet the standards. So theyre easily trolled into piling on to one relatively insignificant person and ignoring the growing fascist movement that threatens our democracy. Sadly, this is politics 101 today in our divided society. Which teacher did she report it to? Learn from them. The attitude some blacks have holds others down. Someone or some system has to be there to nurture that success. 1805. Intuitively, it sounds like it could be true. Good person vs bad person. Give respect to earn respect! He could use his arms and hands limitedly. Alison Collins did not return our calls or texts. Who were the perpetrators? You mean scholars like Ibram Kendi and Robin DAngelo? If she had Id be open to restoration. Collins should indeed step down. He was listed as a witness on the Will of Simeon I dont care about nuance or context, we need to heal and trust each other, because without solidarity we are going nowhere. Therefore you had #2 % in the world in passing AP Tests, which takes tremendous work and morality. 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. Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by thebeatles67, May 26, 2009. Wrong, beneath her, and shes paying now. Collins has been judged guilty of using currently non-PC correlatives in her vernacular. Lining the walls of the schools with dark, somewhat depressing and ominous art doesnt really seems to fit. That should be mandatory as an educator. She married Vernon Eugene Allen in 1970. Her daughters prestigious public high school SOTA was never targeted, WHY!?! Lam says she was not inclined to advocate for Collins resignation until after their phone conversation ended. What does S.F. Ask her to look around before she insults us again. what type of danger zone is needed for this exercise. Maybe studying wasnt certain kids priorities or maybe they were not told how important it was to get the grades to get into a merit based high school? Please do not paint all Lowell students and families with a broad and inaccurate generalizations for which you have no evidence. They earned the accolades they get. This is an experience we share with a number of prominent San Francisco leaders, including Asian Americans who had supported Collins in 2018. What then is the difference if I cite crime statistics and call all Blacks felons and drug dealers? Our schools need to be an opportunity for all races and ethnicities to succeed. She is a poor example of the school board and towards the Asian community. Sort of like the Lowell entrance exam. Lam says Collins was unapologetic and that voices were raised.. Black people have been beaten, battered and abused in this country, both literally and figuratively, for centuriesput at great disadvantage through written laws up until the 1970s and through unwritten practice til present dayand when a good portion of their communities dont thrive, we blame their lack of work ethic! In this case Commissioner Molina also made his voice heard in asking Collins to resign. The Asian cop during the George Floyd murder said NOTHING and did NOTHING to stop the murder from taking place, he is an accessory to MURDER, a MURDER to a man of color, need it say more. Nothing could be further from the truth. But at the same time, the house negro status is a precarious one subject to the masters whims. When Allison Collins ran for School Board in 2018, there was also a candidate named Josephine Zhao. Dont even try to justify racist, misdirected hate coming from a school board member. Kicked by such songs as 'Getaway" and 'Don't Misunderstand Me' the album sold more than a million copies and the band toured to enthusiastic, sellout crowds. Their ambitious new tour, just days underway, saw sellout crowds. These are all dangerous precedents. She has actively pursued policies that specifically hurt Asian American children more than any other group. That alone should disqualify her from a public service position. Feel free to check it out, its on NBC news. In a vacuum, her 2016 tweets could have been excused if she had showed genuine remorse for her behavior. He later plead no contest to DUI manslaughter. The Rossington-Collins Band debuted in June 1980 with the Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere album. Their racism is in pursuit of a greater good so if you dont like their racism, its because you are racist. Her comments in 2016 shows her true self. Ask most Asian American families who fit this scenario one question. 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. There are more than 5,300 universities and colleges in the United States. We should try to get all kids to make the admirable effort Asian kids, on average, do make. Absolutely! My dad worked three jobs and my mom worked two jobs (both went to night school to learn English) to support our family so that the kids could focus on school. To say I got (and, still do) a ton of crap for quoting those verses from the Oxford Revised Standard Version . What if someone tweeted that insert Your race used white supremacy thinking to get ahead? I never heard Trump DENIGRATE a race. she ought to teach all children to work hard and have the competitive spirit, and not go through life with an unearned free pass. Look at all the time and energy being spent on Collins, rather than on the students. This word describes the position with which Asian-Americans reside in the American racial hierarchy and the direction where loyalties are placed. Nope. Subscribe today to get Mission Local's stories delivered directly to your inbox. I will tell all of you defending Collins trying to educate your beliefs: you should all be ashamed for hiding behind a progressive idealism but tearing people apart with your divisive words and behavior. Collins needs to go. Its dehumanizing. Big yikes. How convenient, but waitthen Joe Rogan does the same thingquoting folks using the n word, but gets all but cancelled by the liberal left. It was a cruel act. Thanks for the great article. People like this took Tom Sawyer out of school libraries. They are proving Collinss point about anti-black biases with an absolutely amazing lack of self-awareness. This is a period of a Great Need to Hurt. 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. Her lawsuit is incredibly tone deaf. She served on the board from January 7, 2019 [2] until her recall election of 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. I took him up on it and got a Blue Bottle siphon. The far left has tried to minimalize this but it is a moral imperative. It sounded like she is hiding behind her daughter and taking potshots at Asian Americans. 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. You dont see Asian children in immigration dog cages and taken and separated from their parents by immigration. Viewing this story from New York is interesting. 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). Floyd Thursby, just now read your reply from last year. Really!! 1 is Racism in society, which is a theory insulting to whites and unfair, as antiracism is literally our national religion and any white person acting racist is targeted for destruction and hated by nearly all other whites. The opportunistic targeting of Commissioner Collins distracts from the national conversation around addressing Anti-API and Anti-Black hate. My family, refugees from Laos, escaped to the US in 1975. She is doing a dis-service to those kids. The Northern California branch of the Society of Professional Journalists named Eskenazi the 2019 Journalist of the Year. Required fields are marked *, {{#message}}{{{message}}}{{/message}}{{^message}}Your submission failed. 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. Black kids bully Asian kids all the time. But then that wont make it elite, and it will no longer be a desirable school. Collins must resign! get by effectively getting rid of its nationally renowned public college prep school. The trauma led to drugs. That if we do not unite in solidarity (Black, Asian, Hispanic), we all remain n-words. Research shows 60% of Asian American kids start Kindergarten knowing to read. But of course, the honorary white status is provisional and can be revoke at anytime depending on the political expediencies of the real white people in charge. We will NEVER be given a fair chance. The wedding reception played host to a piece of rock and roll history -- one of the first public performances of "Freebird" complete with the trademark extended guitar jam at the end. WebAllen Collins was born on July 19, 1952 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Many Asians despite pressures to excel in school, still find themselves living on the economic margins in poverty. Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message. Asian Americans have a long history of schooling and testing that way predates any notion of White Supremacy, or White people as an identity. Collins, daughter of musician Phil Collins and actress Jill Tavelman, wore a stunning high neck, long-sleeved lace gown. Shame on this racist sham Allison Collins! White and Asian kids at most SF public schools are 8x as likely to be on a track to be a UC Grad. Kathy had a fatal haemorrhage during miscarriage of the couples third As stated explicitly in the story, youre asking me to put nuance and context into these statements that Collins did not. You cant hide behind Malcolm, that speech doesnt lessen what was said by her in any way. I have to touch back on the Freedom of Our Speech earlier comment. People need to stop making generalizations about large groups of people based on their skin color or nationality. Thank you Gustavo for your clear thinking and helpful words! Collins and any City leader that supports her, including our friends and the NAACP that do not realize their support is NOT advancing our overall POC advancement, need to resign and let new unifying leaders start over. Maybe the guy in Georgia liked Trump, and there are whites who attack Asians, but most here are black, so acknowledge that. You may also have read his work in the Guardian (U.S. and U.K.); San Francisco Public Press; San Francisco Chronicle; San Francisco Examiner; Dallas Morning News; and elsewhere. This has become a litmus test of sorts. 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. For whatever its worth, Id bet the NYTimes would not have run its piece on the SF school board yesterday were it not for the reporting here. Whats even more sickening is that Zhou still holds her position with the California Civil Grand Juror Association as director of public relations and is a behavioral health clinician (sounds like Zhou is in need of behavioral health therapy herself). It is trivially easy to find evidence that these biases exist I dont even have to leave any of the comment threads discussing Collinss tweets to find it! The goal should also be to get those whites to study more hours, marry, save, etc. Jesus; black people are not keeping you down; fuck. Dont the door hit you on the way out! People have since said that she seemed "slow," but I 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. and felt they were treated well (broad, over generalized statement, I know). Thats why they never urge black and Latino kids to study long hours, work summers, go to tutoring at the libraries, and focus obsessively on grades. Allen Collins married Kathy John in 1970. Minority businesses in big cities thrived. The bulk of the the model minority (aka house negro) stereotype revolves around the fallacious idea of the American work ethic. Because Collins is not wrong!! Is this truth you speak of going to make a better place for all of us? Making Lowell a lottery school, eliminating 8th grade algebra and banning willful defiance suspensions, and eliminating honors, just to name a few. This is the classic parable of ones chickens coming home to roost. Collins uses this type of inflammatory rhetoric constantly. 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. San Francisco is such a beautiful and diverse city. The wedding is kind of a light page in the dark book of Collins's life. She was given many chances and she doesnt have a damn in our meetings. Why is it that racism coming from the left complicated while racism from the right is clear as day? The traditional family structure was historically prevalent and encouraged in African American society from long ago until at least the mid 1960s when the Great Society programs discouraged it. It was interrupted when white supremacists imprisoned them in the Topaz, Utah concentration camp. The idea is Asian Americans can never actually get ahead, and should join her in a battle to overthrow Americas culture, which she views as hateful. Initially the band was named My Backyard, then The Noble Five and by 1968 it was called The One Percent before finally zeroing on the name Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1969. Is that really designed to make opportunity more equal? If this City is ever to recover we have to start pushback now. How many Democrats use private school? This is whats in her heart. Immigrants prove that. For teachers too, it is a different type of teaching when all of the kids can keep up, or when some need additional help even just to start. Overall white students make up 11% of the high school age student body. Nobody is calling anyone a n*** in the quote/reference. She posted pictures of Character was important as evidenced by Martin Luther Kings famous speech. you are not grandiose as you claim. They have to save and not waste money. 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. Asian Americans are sick and tired of her belittling!!! I have heard this from teachers (at other schools). It doesnt mean that one side is right or wrong. 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. She wants them to hate whites, and Asians, as she hates Asians. They had other accomplishments as well, like convincing millions that they longed for their homeland of Alabama, whether or not they'd ever been to the state. Collins, who was a private citizen in 2016, is entitled to think what she thinks and write what she writes. Blacks have every opportunity to prove as an individual they want to learn by sacrificing those hours. Her statements were very hurtful to me. Well played right winged SF parents and Madame Mayor. Afghans are lumped in with Arab/Muslim Americans, which is a disservice to the unique needs of my community. Asians believe they worked harder than Black folks. 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 they have the nerve to talk about White Privilege. His life after the plane crash was a slippery slope that connected one tragedy to the next. Our meeting ended when I said, Sam, were Israel not committing crimes, there would be no need for AIPAC. Both my parents graduated from Lowell and went on to Berkeley. Thats a sign she doesnt respect achievement, and as poor Asians achieve more in school tests than middle income whites, as do Nigerian immigrants, its also a sign she doesnt respect Asians for their achievements. In fact many Asian American[s] actively promote these myths. In 1989, Allen developed pneumonia as a result of decreased lung capacity from the paralyzation. high school for elementary school students, college for high school students, etc. His mother would work all day at a cigar factory and did a job in the evenings at Woolworths to meet ends. Listen to the whole speech on YouTube if you have half an hour. However, there has always been controversy surrounding merit-based admissions in that school. Please stop saying we are influenced like we are stupid. MB, you cant just get offended when anyone discusses work and accuse them of thinking blacks are lazy. Shes just sorry she got caught. I see this comes from the Alison Collins school of public relations yell at and insult others who dont immediately agree with you and ignore their point of view. It is true, we do NOT see Asian children in immigration dog cages and ripped away from their parents. This is not skimming. i hope her Like yesterday. You learn about success by behavior. 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