We all need to GROW UP. Many whites are very lazy. 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). I see now that I should not have had hurt feelings because I am too uneducated to have understood the true meaning of Collins tweets. Meritocracy has roots at least as far back as Confucius before they were even deeply exposed to European culture. Its not racist to note that Asian kids study more. "Skynning" Europe alive. Or is your advocacy just for show? She should submit it someplace where it can be more broadly shared. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/us/san-francisco-schools-racism.html?searchResultPosition=3 I doubt Ms. Collins would take to that lightly, but thats EXACTLY what she did. The various public board meetings where Allison Colins has continued to single out Asians by citing time, over and over again, that there are too many Asians at Lowell and calling everyone, including Asians, on the meeting who opposed removing merit admissions racist. There are a bunch of them so feel free to dig through those meetings here: https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/board-education/board-education-meetings/2021-board-education-meeting-documents-archive. The model minority was made official in 1966 by UC Berkeley sociologist William Petersen PhD with articles in Time magazine and US News and World Report comparing orientals with problem minorities (Black folks like MLK). after my name. And it warrants mentioning and unambiguously mentioning: It is not racist for a Black woman to call out anti-Blackness. I dont think this detail is going to placate anyone. If she gets away with this then what message are we sending to the school kids? However, while the school district is 40% Asian American, not all Asian Americans thrive academically. That should be mandatory as an educator. This is all written in love to achieve a more equitable and fair SFUSD. Why are you leaving it up for this queen to waste her time in explaining shit. Yes, hard work and admissions into top tier universities can lead to increased earnings, but not every Asian American is thriving. Have folks forgotten the racist and stereotypical mural Ellen Lee Zhou put up in SF of Mayor London Breed. Personal tragedy struck again on January 29, 1986 when Collins new Ford Thunderbird crashed into a ditch. It fits the narrative of school sucks because they are surrounded by historical situations that suck, every day. This was thoughtful https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-again-used-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-blacks. She isnt sorry at all. Most readers are too clueless to know where is she coming from. This was Eugenics and most scientists believe all races have roughly equal average IQs, though the IQ may be higher for groups who say no to alcohol and drugs, and some IQ is environmental, the genetic potential for IQ is equal, and Nigerian Immigrants show higher than average white IQs, so this theory is false. She married Vernon Eugene Allen in 1970. 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. By the way, growing up, I have been called racial slurs by Caucasians, Latinos, Middle Easterns, other Asians, and yes, even African Americans? Her first tweets were not totally legit. Collins uses this type of inflammatory rhetoric constantly. Learn More{{/message}}, {{#message}}{{{message}}}{{/message}}{{^message}}It appears your submission was successful. 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. 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. We just hustled, prayed, and did the best we could. Much of AIPACs work involves whitewashing Israels illegal occupation of Palestine in support of the Israeli governments campaign of dehumanizing those there before them. Blacks, like everyone else, have a chance to prove they can learn and are smart and are morally willing to undergo the extreme sacrifice to prove they want to work as much as other kids, many Asian, who work very, very hard, who choose long hours of study over TV, video games, social media, hanging out. She punished thousands of families and openly called them racist for something a couple people they dont know did. 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? Of course! Would this justify an Asian parent casting hateful racial slurs at all black students, parents and teachers? 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. WebAllen's family grew with the birth of his daughter Amie, followed quickly by Allison. And the success of Africans and Asians proves whites arent racist. Im open to being convinced with clear, hard data. I also think that if families work hard and push their kids to work hard to achieve the American dream that is a good thing. why dont you work harder in life instead of But it is the argument. We continue to grieve even as we support Commissioner Collins, and we call on all San Francisco leaders to focus on healing and deepening efforts to address systemic racism in our schools. Not to mention the treatment of the Bantu in Somalia, or conditions in Nigeria, etc. In 1963, Allen lived in Jacksonville's Cedar Hills area when an older friend received a guitar for his birthday. She didnt call them the n word. Its very true that there are Asians from many different backgrounds and skin tones who also dont think in a monolithic way. She has a school named after her, and she is far from perfect. 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. Also maybe the whole school board should go. Her father is English musician Phil Collins, while her mother, Jill Tavelman, who is from Los Angeles, California, was president of the Beverly Hills Women's Club for three terms. However, the pull of creating music was too strong for Allen to walk away from. 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. But her response (including her non-apology Medium post) has been tone-deaf at best and actively spiteful at worst. Research shows 60% of Asian American kids start Kindergarten knowing to read. The fact is that the success of East and South Asians in this country would not be possible without the blood shed by Black Americans in the civil rights movement. To anyone who argues that this is ok because it *might* be true (on the basis of personal anecdotes) I refer to an earlier commenter who pointed out that this is exactly how racists justify racism. Collins put down entire generations of hard working immigrant Asians who came to this country, worked hard, and sacrificed for their children while emphasizing education when they couldnt even help their children. 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. Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message. somewhere that Amie is living in South Carolina, but no one seems Its the elephant in the room. But how ironic it is that she sends her kids to a merit based entrance school. And, that would be a correct assumption. Call for the arrest of those who destroyed the statues in Golden Gate Park and spraypainted Kill Whitey, and help police track them down and make a citizens arrest (I am 90% sure the person who did this was white, but whatever race they are they should do 10 years in prison for destroying those statues). 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. The slaves that worked in the home were less likely to push for abolishing the system because they did not see much wrong with it, but the master could always relegated them to hard labor. Yall really need to learn nuance. Our schools need to be an opportunity for all races and ethnicities to succeed. Access the best of Getty Images with our simple subscription plan. There is a need for students of all races and cultural background to receive a welcome mat upon entry of school instead of seeing schools/teachers/administrations pull up the mat depending on who is attempting to cross the threshold. Shame on her, and Shane in anybody who defends her. i am proud to be an advocate for children, pediatrician, educator. Of course not. Moving kids around, renaming schools, stripping away academic entry.none of that solves the root cause of the academic failures of certain groups of studentswhich is family values around academic commitment and achievement, high academic standards, no entitlement mentality as if someone owes you anything, and not looking for entitlement and lowering standards to compete. Bet thats on the year-end spelling test. Is that going to fix things? This is why we cant have dialog about racial issues. In 2019, every San Francisco politico and their Uncle Steve lined up against vape-juice titan Juuls attempt to undo city law and write its own regulations. I received a class A education throughout my life yet I was in the dark on much of it until this past year. Collins lost control of the car, drove the vehicle off the road, and flipped the vehicle in a violent crash. 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. Read Triple Package. Collins and Ronnie co-wrote several hit songs for Skynyrd including Gimme Three Steps (1973), Free Bird (1974) and That Smell (1977). These tweets continued, however. I have hereby decided that Herman Melvilles Moby Dick is a light comedia dellarte about the game of golf cool, okay, got it. In the front row, from left, are Seniors Jerry Albertson, Ron Allen, Bill Kersey, David Collins, Ray Patterson, Mickey Greer, Frank Sayre, Bob However, meritocracy in the United States is a myth. Black kids bully Asian kids all the time. Like if the field negros would just shut up and concentrate on picking more cotton, someday they might make it working in the house. 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. 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. We Asians/Asian Americans do not see ourselves as inferior or superior to other races, nor should any other nationality, race, color, creed, age or gender. What does S.F. What a disgraceful, offensive, and pathetic woman. During the immigration process and for the record, Blacks and Latinos have NEVER been afforded the privilege of choosing an American Name in addition to their legal name. When conservatives play race politics, they do so awkwardly and clumsily. Great work, Joe. Here, in New York City, the number of attacks on Asian elders by Black men is completely disproportional to the citys demographics. https://youtu.be/PuGkVzeh4zM The band spawned two albums of which the first Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere (1980) included their most successful single Don't Misunderstand Me that charted in late 1980. Being a house n****r is still being a n****r. Youre still considered the help., Jenny Lam, the only Chinese American school board member in San Franciscos heavily Asian school district, told me she felt the tweets played into generalizations that for a group of people, Asian Americans, if you want to get ahead, youre supporting white supremacy., Norman Yee, a former president of both the Board of Supervisors and Board of Education, felt that Collins call-out of Asians for not being vocal played into longstanding stereotypes of Asians as docile and passive. Your email address will not be published. The opportunistic targeting of Commissioner Collins distracts from the national conversation around addressing Anti-API and Anti-Black hate. Yet this is what she did of all Asians with her misguided tweets. They have to stay married even if theyre no longer attracted to the person, for the good of the kids. Can you help a person who doesnt want to be helped? 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. I want her out, and I dont want her to go quietly because this performative-vs-principled conversation is something we need to have but gets silenced by the shouters. Give us a hand and lets rise up together. Having someone on a school board telling her charges (the students) that hard work (merit) has no place in San Francisco is completely opposite of what you want educators to say. ^^ Dino, thats incorrect. 3. never found any evidence to support that except for the In college, other students (rich white kids) called me and my fellow Asian friends grinds because we studied every day including weekends, and didnt party enough. Aside from the most unredeemably racist name changes, weve seen Collins focused on therapy for SFUSD students, to signal Board support and shield them from pain, but which does little to stop the reproduction of white supremacy. Alison Collins did not return our calls or texts. However, remaining on the sidelines while his band took center stage proved painful for the guitarist. Most Asian parents do, or at least a higher percentage. I wonder if thats an actual genetic rather than learned trait. 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