It reveals an inability to listen and a lack of judgment and empathy. 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 Thats not racism to note. Im open to being convinced with clear, hard data. (Id imagine Asians in the US get more consideration from power than a Black, brown or white US person would get in Han China.). Awful person, awful statements. 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. Kids who choose to study choose not to hang out, watch TV, talk, play video games, or go on social media. Commissioner Alison Collins has been one of the few consistent anti-racist voices among politicians in this city. Thanks so much for writing what you did, you are so right. No, we dont. Have you read Malcolm Xs speech? Mere use of that phrase is not necessarily a reference of any sort. Try listening. Both are true. 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. Are you now OK to go ahead with cancelling Allison Collins? 2. Hey Twitter! began Collins Dec. 4, 2016 tweetstorm. Maybe the elementary and middle schools Pasta kids went to didnt have as good funding and not as many programs? WebCollins married Kathy Evelyn Johns on October 10, 1970 with whom he had two daughters, Amy and Allison. Together with singer Ronnie VanZant and guitarist Gary Rossington, Allen Collins formed the nucleus of Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1964 by learning what they could from each other and listening to the radio. Parents have to make enough money or make enough sacrifices to provide a stable environment for learning. Ive not been a fan of Collins. Asians believe they are so damn smart, they can figure out something based on what they already know. She is incapable of building bridges. Never mind about the subject at hand, you want to take the time to school people on YOUR situation and whatever situation Collins has experienced. Collins became proficient with the guitar quickly and soon formed his first band The Mods.'. However, if merit-based admissions is dropped, will this lower the prestige of this public high school? In a vacuum, her 2016 tweets could have been excused if she had showed genuine remorse for her behavior. Sorry, you simply do not understand these terms as they are used by people who think about and discuss race as a living,. This is what Collins is pointing out. Ideally black kids will sacrifice everything possible timewise to prove they want to learn and are as smart and moral and hardworking as these immigrants. Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message. His license was suspended for driving under the influence several times before it was outright revoked for good, but that didn't stop the former Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist from getting behind the wheel after knocking back a few. sorry for the shame she has brought to her children I find it intriguing that I havent seen a simple point anywhere. Lowell students have been recognized for their achievement because they work hard for them. Keep this sort of stuff in museums or cultural centers, not places extended consistent work/ education. "Alison Collins wants $87 million for damage to her career. These SFUSD employees say she destroyed theirs". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2021-05-09. ^ Tucker, Jill (November 7, 2018). Collins did not fabricate her experience. 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. Are we reverting back to segregation? This is not Whats up my Ni**as. Can you provide more information about what you a referring to? Well I walk in and I'm introduced to Amie--Allen Collin's first born. 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. That would strengthen America, and Collins and Lopez want to bring America down. Floyd Thursby, just now read your reply from last year. Long considered one of rock's premier guitarists, Allen Collins served as heart to Ronnie VanZant's soul in Lynyrd Skynyrd. 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. Nobody is coming out of this looking good. You are as much if a white supremacist as Trumps followers, except they come in wolfs clothing. But to say that it is solely because of race is wrong-it IS racism when someone says that another race uses white supremecist methodology/thinking to get ahead. Is this unity? She is equating academic success with acting white, which is the most destructive thing a black parent could do. Why hasnt Zhou been made or voted to be removed from her city position? Its the American ideology of rugged individualism and hard work.. How would you feel? The complete and utter hypocrisy and morally bankrupt relativism of the antiracist movement is on full display here. this can result in this site earning a commission. It proved fatal for his girlfriend Debra Jean Watts, and left him paralyzed from the waist down. Your email address will not be published. It is that we cannot judge a historical person using todays standards. I dont think she has the kids best interests in her heart and she certainly does not model good behavior. You have to use the scientific method. I looked forward to learning more about some of the obscure names (and fully agreed with renaming the most high-profile problematic names). Feinstein is being cancelled and the school name will be removed. A very friendly greeting and I have a 10 minute tour of the "archives"--gold records everywhere, original awards, guitars, etc. Donald Trump, whose been the embodiment of the American work ethic for decades, calls them losers to which they should be summarily fired. Saying her approach was too nuanced for people to understand is patheticthere is no nuance on Twitter, everyone has known that since long before 2016. 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. 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. Shell never survive a recall effort now. What about vice versa? 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. This Censorship/cancel/Culture weakens a language in my opinion which is generally speaking, my favorite. what do you have? 1975's Torture Tour. I want more black kids, but they have to choose to sacrifice the same time Asian kids do on flashcards, workbooks, reading, looking up words, trying to correct grammar if they hear friends misconjugate verbs, read all Summer, etc. 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. So white students are 3X overrepresented at SOTA. 6. Ask these families if they would rather, in this situation, if they had the choice, A. have Lowell become a lottery school just as their child enters 7th or 8th grade, ruining their plans or B. have a criminal push them out of their vehicle or use a weapon and steal their brand new car from them, even assuming they had no insurance. White kids, 5.6. Earlier in 1979, he performed at Volunteer Jam V at Skynyrds first stage performance since the plane crash. Afghan Americans in the Bay Area form the largest Diasporic community in the United States. For all of the mostly white, wealthy families advocating so much for antiracism, why are your kids attending private schools? Her lawsuit is incredibly tone deaf. 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. Asian-Americans believe in their inherent superiority and goodness. Is that going to fix things? They were clearly dug up by people with an agenda looking for a knife to grind. Calling merit white supremacy is such an inane concept coming from anyones mouth. shaming yourself? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/us/san-francisco-schools-racism.html?searchResultPosition=3, https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-again-used-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-blacks, https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/board-education/board-education-meetings/2021-board-education-meeting-documents-archive, Dorsey slammed for proposal to change citys Sanctuary policy, Study finds racial disparities in deactivated Uber and Lyft drivers, Michael Moritz's strange and terrible diagnosis of San Francisco, Mission Moves: New affordable-housing funds just dropped, Dorsey slammed for proposal to change city's Sanctuary policy, End of an error: The Chronicle at last spikes Willie Brown's indefensible column, SF to close workers' idle healthcare benefit accounts and pocket the funds, Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic. 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. As stated explicitly in the story, youre asking me to put nuance and context into these statements that Collins did not. They have to save and not waste money. One More From The Road. The SAT/ACT does not predict college success per se for someone attending the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. Her skin color and gender doesnt give her the right to discriminate and belittle another race! addendum to my earlier post: 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. 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. asian american legal refugee, 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 personally find it harmful to teach children that working hard and persevering are bad things. MB, you cant just get offended when anyone discusses work and accuse them of thinking blacks are lazy. We are the ones weve been waiting for. Both were 1st in their families to go to college. WebHere is Allen's wife, who he had his two daughters Amie & Allison with, Kathy in yearbook of Robert Lee HS. been blessed with the opportunities afforded me to attain the american dream. 10. But when we flip this around to the humanities, oh NOW its how dare you criticize someone for not being familiar with the verbiage of a field of expertise, how can you expect her to know about these things. Hmmm. They use white supremacist thinking to assimilate and get ahead., Collins also wrote Where are the vocal Asians speaking up against Trump? In 1970, Allen married Kathy Johns. Maybe there were no role models at home? Is she Asian? Furthermore, Asian Americans studying hard to get ahead, is not White Supremacy. Years after Collins death, on March 13, 2006, Skynyrd was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Collins married Kathy Evelyn Johns on October 10, 1970 with whom he had two daughters, Amy and Allison. Kathy had a fatal haemorrhage during miscarriage of the couples third child in 1980. Very amateurish. 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. Success depends on many factors, but there is something called the immigrant paradox where even low-wage Asian families can thrive through hard work. His second daughter is Allison who was born in 1973 or 1974. The death threats were sent to an account called SFGAL8, not Collins and Lopez. WebAllen's family grew with the birth of his daughter Amie followed quickly by Allison. I thought a member of the board has to resign or be recalled (which requires 70k signatures, pen on paper). Therefore you had #2 % in the world in passing AP Tests, which takes tremendous work and morality. i will not be silenced by people like YOU! Now its on to anti-Asian sentiment, ignoring the facts that Asian students on average put the most hours into study. If you take away the ability to consider ethnic groups, you dont notice that and are back to just saying some individuals are unique, everyone be their own star. Why refer to Asian Americans as if the community is monolithic? Collins is the only Black woman on the school board (though these tweets were written two years before her election). This brings up another parable of the pot calling the kettle black. 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. We need to move away from Collins way of thinking. Nice to know she stands by those racial stereotypes. They are more moral, and more moral than whites, on average, based on study hours, out of wedlock births, savings rates, work hours, etc. Heres how you can summarize this story and most of the comments: Please, Allison, please, please, just apologize for making (not) racist remarks. 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. Embedded within the American work ethic is individualism. 1. Everything about the greatest Southern rock band that tragically came to an end in October, 1977. I read somewhere that Amie is living However, it saw an abrupt end following the death of some of its members in an airplane crash that left Collins seriously injured. Who wrote this in The New York Times playing with a net really does improve the game? In the end, Lynyrd Skynyrd was a southern rock legend that bridged a gap between genres. You have no idea who I am, but you are trying to pressure others to obey groupthink by essentially saying, obey me or Ill call you racist. I personally think this is the failure of the Academic Left: a deep contempt for the working class or those who do not pursue a higher education. Most Democratic families with money feel that is too equal and use Hamlin and Burke and other schools to keep their kids from knowing poor kids well and make it 15 or 20x. And this is where things went off the rails. That is no more possible in the medium run than it is for any of the miracle charter schools you hear about to magically replicate themselves and scale. Asians need to understand that Collins is not the enemy, She is a friend and ally who pointed out the truth to us. Who were the perpetrators? We belonged here! Coupled with the lingering effects of losing his friends in the plane crash, Kathy's death devastated Allen. Its hard to imagine any elected official or city leader expending political capital and jumping in front of a bullet in an attempt to nuance this especially when Collins has been part of a Board of Education that has embarrassed the city and enraged many of San Franciscos highest-propensity voters. The racist views against ALL Asian students, parents, and teachers (yes, she said that), has no role in policy making roles for the SFUSD. Its simplistic and wrong. But then that wont make it elite, and it will no longer be a desirable school. Musical career Allen Collins joined Skynyrd in Jacksonville, Florida just two weeks after Ronnie The drugs led to the car accident. Adams ruins everything. Please send them my way., The next tweet continues Im looking to combat anti-black racism in the Asian community at at (sic) my daughters mostly Asian Am school.. Her daughters prestigious public high school SOTA was never targeted, WHY!?! 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). Full stop. 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. What are the two applications of bifilar suspension? the Amazon Associates Program via amazon.com. 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. His girlfriend died, and he was left paralyzed from the waist down. They want to destroy their opposition in every way. Though several people died in the crash, Allen Collins survived, although seriously injured, both physically and psychologically. She should be teaching kids nonwhite immigrants from 70 nations and 30 African Nation out-earn whites within a generation. Why dont you put her tweets in context by referencing the Malcolm X quote she was obviously referring to? That is the only way we make real change in the fight against racism and I believe thats exactly what Collins tweets were about. Tell me: what is the goal here by going down this path of convincing them to be less successful? https://youtu.be/PuGkVzeh4zM It is totally ignorant for her to equate academics with White Supremacy. Namely that ones race gender and sexuality only counted if they were in ideological lockstep. 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. Collins is still alive and could actually make amends for past harm, unlike the guy whos standing on the dead Indian in that apparently progressive mural inside Washington High. The American work ethic postulates that if one works hard enough, one can achieve success. 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. The Lowell hot mic incident back in October where she called those in attendance racist is just one of many examples where Collins has used inflammatory language. Privacy Policy. Parents who feel entitled to a private school education paid for by tax payers are behind this push to recall Collins and other BOE members. So, where was I before I went for another gummie? and felt they were treated well (broad, over generalized statement, I know). Its GARBAGE. 1822. 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. Really!! Shaming Asian Americans for toiling to get to where we are today. She refers to Asian Americans success, higher test scores, higher income, and the other aforementioned facts as getting ahead in airquotes, being the help, and being a House N, which trivializes Asian American accomplishment and deservedness of admiration and credit and thanks for the sacrifice to achieve this. You and others are reacting to a comment that wasnt even meant for them lol Theres no excuse for discrimination and being a racist! profiled? Even though the server responded OK, it is possible the submission was not processed. She calls it the opportunity gap. Black brown yellow people are getting played against each other get it together people! Nothing was taken out of context. Has Zhou been forced to resign from any city position or banned from any future political runnings, I think not. I also want to compliment Korbi Ghosh on the April 9 piece he wrote the sentiment, the logic, the depth of his expression was really encouraging. She said many and there is a difference. 2023 Getty Images. Allison was injured as a baby when her I dont think youd find many Asian American families who would choose A. Allison Collins By Ryan Broussard rybroussard@theadvocate.com Aug 18, 2014 - 3:54 pm Prosecutors will not file charges against Baton Rouge singer Allison 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! Immigrants from Africa outperform whites because they have an open mind and believe effort pays off. Much of AIPACs work involves whitewashing Israels illegal occupation of Palestine in support of the Israeli governments campaign of dehumanizing those there before them. 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. The reason black woman might have different perspective and I dont know miss collins nore can i apologize for her words i am speaking as adult outside of SFEDD but went to very merit based supposedly diverse school district with same school within school problem faced by students in the SFED district that had tons of african american students but few in AP class level . Collins is absolutely right about us benefiting from this model minority myth! This word describes the position with which Asian-Americans reside in the American racial hierarchy and the direction where loyalties are placed. It also included Skynyrd members Billy Powell and Leon Wilkeson, in addition to female lead vocalist, Dale Krantz. Deferred gratification. The others stood in solidarity with Collins Anns these ideologies that do not serve out students or our city. Dont be so lazy. Furthermore, we want to highlight and remember how API and Black communities have historically and are currently working together in solidarity with each other against white racism. Time is beyond up for Washington, Lincoln and all the troubling individuals after whom some SFUSD schools are named. The same is true of other Asian refugee groups that have been resettled in this country compared to those who are voluntary migrants. Nothing, serious no blood or broken bones but it made the other kids laugh at the student who suffered the mishap. If someone tweeted that and used YOUR race in the tweet, you would understand. If she wanted to walk me through it or walk anyone through it, the chance was there. It doesnt matter where she got the quote from, it is outrageous for her to call Asian Americans house ni****s. 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. Allen's family grew with the birth of his daughter Amie followed quickly by Allison. That being said, when running for office, isnt purging ones social media pro forma? I dont think you would agree either. It was a cruel act. I think all students regardless of color are capable of learningso why is it then? Im not an expert, Latina, 1st gen, mestiza, grew up poor monolingual household, single parent, for whatever thats worth. 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. I *am* saying that if someone is clearly using words the way theyre used in that field, you cant just go obliviously wandering into a discussion and insisting that they used them with some other definition thats the only one you, a dilettante, understand, and then whining about it whenever somebody correctly points out that you literally do not know what you are talking about. They call the achievement gap the opportunity gap. It is then, an honorary white person position will be bestowed upon the loyal Asian. 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. Comparing white people to demons is beyond the pale. Yeah, so some kind of accident happens to one of the kids. According to the groups website, they have 19,000 registered Chinese members in 41 states across the country. This has become a litmus test of sorts. They are an emotion-infused plea to step UP. 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. Sort of like the Lowell entrance exam. They have also lived in Oakley, CA and Yorktown, IN. I read Very well said,Bedbug. In the front row, from left, are Seniors Jerry Albertson, Ron Allen, Bill Kersey, David Collins, Ray Patterson, Mickey Greer, Frank Sayre, Bob Sure, if you consider toddler-level illogic and implicitly racist theories scholarship, then, yes, our best and brightest are on the case. 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