If you want more diversity at Lowell, you should focus on the elementary schools to make sure all kids get the same opportunities and levels of education. If you barely study, are rude to teachers, dont read summers, and spend more time watching TV than reading, the content of your character needs improvement. (If thats the case, very little gets solved.) Collins was seriously injured in the crash, suffering two broken vertebrae in his neck and severe damage to his right arm. This is exactly backwards: the students are what make the schools elite!). She has been very, very rude to Josephine Zhao on multiple occasions in public, at meetings, and said disrespectful things about her. These tweets continued, however. Im 1/4 Asian American, but Im Afghan. It is not racist to state facts. In many schools in San Francisco the amount of African American kids have been declining year after year. The accomplished AAPI is a doctor. By the way, growing up, I have been called racial slurs by Caucasians, Latinos, Middle Easterns, other Asians, and yes, even African Americans? However, what people accusing Asians of anti blackness fail to realize is that there is context on the other side of the equation too, whether thats seeing mobs during the Rodney King riots target Asian stores for the crimes of a white judicial system or the day-to-day casual aggression from our neighbors. His life after the plane crash was a slippery slope that connected one tragedy to the next. It doesnt matter if CRT is the greatest academic field ever devised or pseudointellectual trash; if what you are trying to do is formulate a coherent response to the ideas that Alison Collins actually meant, you need to, yknow, not grossly misunderstand the ideas that Alison Collins actually meant. I find it intriguing that I havent seen a simple point anywhere. Taking away rewards will hurt our GDP and our nation. Rather than be apologetic, she became defensive. Actions speak louder than words. Spend one hour listening to Thomas Sowell and learning habits. These tweets do not read well. Complaints have been filed on this discrimination that is UNFAIR hiring and DISCRIMINATION against people of color. We all got played here, one tells me. They just happened to be toasted sandwich loving kids. And, regardless of newspapers blithely using the term racist tweets reductively transforming a complicated situation into a simple one, applying a metaphorical scarlet letter and minimizing the very real problems of systemic anti-Blackness the tweets say what they say. Using Asians as a punching bag is accepted, because they are the perpetual other a group that does not speak up. You can be successful if you work hard. Well played. 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. Im not bragging, I just want people like her to know, I did it because of hard work and not through white supremist thinking) and I didnt have to marry a wealthy white real estate developer to get ahead. But the fact remainsCollins wants to punish the people who did qualify based on merit. This is the classic parable of ones chickens coming home to roost. Collins should go because her ideology unchanged since her tweets doesnt help students to actually get ahead. 1802 in TN. 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. My parents were the help.. 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. (That should happen at the ballot box and shes up for re-election in November 2022.) City College SF has some great classes about the Asian-American history, if they want to learn about why their words and actions are so hurtful and dangerous. None of us spoke out against Trump? I read somewhere that Amie is living Shell never survive a recall effort now. If she gets away with this then what message are we sending to the school kids? 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. I believe there are more good than bad in each race. WebHere is Allen's wife, who he had his two daughters Amie & Allison with, Kathy in yearbook of Robert Lee HS. Instead read Triple Package and try to convince black kids to do what Asian and Nigerian kids do and pattern their childhood after them because it guarantees high income because America is fair and will embrace them and compensate them for their skills if they do. https://youtu.be/PuGkVzeh4zM WebAccording to her Instagram, she says that someone named Les Collins is her father, NOT Allen Collins. Her youngest daughter really resembles Allen. For instance, if the racist slave owner decides he wants to scapegoat someone for spreading the some Kung-Flu, the house negro will conveniently serve as the whipping boy to which the field negros attention will focused upon and away from the master. It is totally ignorant for her to equate academics with White Supremacy. The wedding also, according to Lynyrd Skynyrd History, featured one of the first performances of the iconic song "Free Bird.". Dial down the very palpable contempt, your academic privileged is showing. 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. Because Collins is not wrong!! Solving the problem required everyone tucking their rock and roll image under wigs for the wedding ceremony. The result -- Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd -- started the band on its rise to fame with standards like 'Gimme Three Steps', 'Simple Man', and the incendiary, guitar-driven classic, 'Freebird'. 3/4 or more of Black and Brown students in SFUSD cant pass their state proficiency exams. The crash, which killed Ronnie VanZant, guitarist Steve Gaines, vocalist Cassie Gaines, road manager Dean Kilpatrick and seriously injured the rest of the band and crew, shattered Skynyrd's fast rising star as it cut a 500 foot path through the swamp. He entered the hospital in September where he passed away on January 23, 1990. All of them. ^^ Dino, thats incorrect. Does anyone know about any news stories highlighting hate speech or bullying of Asian students? I supported the intent behind the renaming, but they bungled the politics in a ridiculous step-on-rake way. and our 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. And the fact it happened two years before she was elected would seem to be no different than James Licks foundation giving money to build a racist sculpture 18 years after he died. 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. Were the opportunities ONLY offered to Toasted Sandwich kids? What if someone tweeted that insert Your race used white supremacy thinking to get ahead? Worried that the long hair of Collins's bandmates would scare her friends and relatives, Kathy John had them wear wigs so they'd seem more presentable to the normal folk. Alison Collins read people for filth! Even when Gary Rossington and Dale Krantz quit the Rossington Collins Band, Allen continued on forming the Allen Collins Band in 1983. He first developed interest in the guitar in 1963 when a friend received a guitar as birthday gift. I was less referring to Zhaos position than I was pointing out that elected officials, including Breed and Wiener, were steadfast in their support of her. I just finished reading all the comments. 1975's Torture Tour. So what is the model thats being modeled in the model minority? Is she Asian? If my kids posted what she posted Id be horrified , I remember once asking someone who was herding the crazy cats running a SF non-profit how in gods name she could tolerate the opportunistic hateful bile leveled at anyone who dared not tow their SF Gestapogressive party line resorting often to disparagement of their race, gender, and sexuality. Remove her from the board. Latino kids went from 7 to 12% over 10 years based on increased study hours. If you are white, the question you ask is what was I before I was white? Whiteness is a faulty ideology that should be dismantled. Doctor, I dont care if you singlehandedly built a sterile, working artificial heart out of three old scarves and the circuit board in a Tickle Me Elmo; if youre gonna say something as pig-ignorant as white supremacy in my opinion, is real only to the perpetrator, people are going to call you out on it, and they will be right to do so. Her daughters prestigious public high school SOTA was never targeted, WHY!?! The only thing I can say to all of this rhetoric you wrote I hope you have proof to support some of the self observational comments you have listed as to the reasoning why Blacks children/students are not at a higher academic level as other children. Donald Trump, whose been the embodiment of the American work ethic for decades, calls them losers to which they should be summarily fired. Times were very difficult since Allen's musical career barely brought in enough to support the young family. I commend Norman Yee for pushing back against that narrative and using his voice for once! Do not dismiss the multiple jobs and sacrifices that many immigrant or poor families make to send their kids to Lowell. 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. The only way out of poverty is a better work ethic and more support, like tutors, to decrease the achievement gap. As incomprehensible as this might be, if you follow or assume that the first thought is accurate re White Supremacy acts (which my opinion is it is not and devalues so many ppl and cultures, thus very racist), then the last sentence makes more sense where she is trying to free all of the Asian community from the bounds (White Supremacy thinking) that are tying AAPI down. It is racism, it is inflammatory, and it is not appropriate for someone responsible for children she is clearly racist towards. 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. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-again-used-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-blacks. You are planning an exercise that will include the m16 and m203. They do this: study way more hours, emphasize education to their kids, marry and stay married, work, study summers, focus on grades and test scores and what really matters most, avoid drugs. Have you read Malcolm Xs speech? When conservatives play race politics, they do so awkwardly and clumsily. Its not due to food insecurity or racist white people but because studying is less fun than TV, social media, hanging out, video games or other diversions. It also isnt lost on me that the people speaking of AAIP people often are not speak for darker skin vietnamese, filipina or other non East Asian groups that also work hard and want to achieve American dream but still are looked at manual labor. As stated explicitly in the story, youre asking me to put nuance and context into these statements that Collins did not. According to Petersen, if these problem minorities would just shut and stop protesting and work hard, theyd be successful like them orientals. I agree with your conclusion. second daughter is Allison who was born in 1973 or 1974. She is an arrogant, ignorant hypocrite, and she AND other members of the board of education who are standing by her have no business representing us and ought to resign. Collins must go for the good of SFUSD. Collins is absolutely right about us benefiting from this model minority myth! Youre wrong, Nigerians prove it. The majority of the students in SFUSD are not white. Feinstein is being cancelled and the school name will be removed. Its not. 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. 5. Literally dozens of comments decrying Collins racism and then talking about the only thing holding back black students is their work ethic. The third result is Allison Collins age 20s in Muncie, IN in the Orchard Lawn neighborhood. 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. 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. It saddens me to read comments from people condemning Asians for not being educated enough to understand made up definitions popularized and evolved today into various forms as critical race theory or crit.. Which hurts all kids. Sort of like the Lowell entrance exam. family will do well in life and not be marred by all this shame. Berkeley. I will try to explain where Collins failed based on what I know. If I study hard to get ahead, Im using white supremist thinking? No more than I as an Asian American, have the right to call her any type of racial epithet. This is just a clueless interpretation of both Malcolms quote and the way Collins deployed it. sorry for the shame she has brought to her children She must resign! You dont. AIPACs magnitude is indicative of the scale of the crimes.. Yes, I know the language is shocking to many. So lets just say its not racelets just say she said there are too many kids that like toasted sandwiches at this school. People need to stop making generalizations about large groups of people based on their skin color or nationality. Nothing, serious no blood or broken bones but it made the other kids laugh at the student who suffered the mishap. She dismissed Triple Package as white supremacist. Allen Collins was at the genesis of Lynyrd Skynyrd when he joined lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and fellow guitarist Gary Rossington as long ago as 1964 to form Skynyrd started gaining national success from early 1973. The entire point of the quote is that the people being referred to will always be considered to be n***s IN THE EYES OF THEIR RACIST OPPRESSORS, no matter how much they mistakenly think that playing by the masters rules will elevate them above that status. In 1970, Allen married Kathy Johns. His physical condition allowed him to serve only as music director of Skynyrd when it reunited officially in 1987. Stereotypes about Asian-American citizens continue to hurt and harm people, both personally and professionally. But then that wont make it elite, and it will no longer be a desirable school. Now its on to anti-Asian sentiment, ignoring the facts that Asian students on average put the most hours into study. Here, everyone is against Collins. He was 37 years old. She blabbers on and on about microaggressions and systemic racism against Black members of our community, while being utterly clueless about her own microaggressions (and systemic racismever notice how few of the hardworking students, by whom her children feel threatened and who are denounced as docile and not suited for leadership positions, end up in high level positions in the US???) Why put another race down? They earned the accolades they get. Its not always about racism. His passion for cars, particularly race cars developed in his childhood and lasted all through his life. to know where Allison is. Maybe there wasnt tutoring at school? Her narrow academic use of the term is not widely accepted by the broader public and she knows this. Her comments to me, as someone who is part Asian American (Afghan/South Asian), generalize an entire community. Billy Powell, Amie Williamson, daughter of late guitarist Allen Collins (at podium), Judy Van Zant, widow of late singer Ronnie Van Zant (C) of Lynyrd Skynyrd, inductees, and other family members (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc). His second daughter is Allison who was born in 1973 or 1974. Its in our culture to study hard as a way to get ahead when you dont have money or connections which is exactly where my family started out in the US. To qualify, students must have a Has Collins made one peep about that private school at taxpayers expense? Things were looking up for Collins. Probably because it was one of the songs they're best known for. 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. Her death devastated Collins. Personal tragedy struck again on January 29, 1986 when Collins new Ford Thunderbird crashed into a ditch. You are the enemy of all. Collins later founded The Rossington Collins Band with Gary Rossington and following its disbandment he started the short-lived Allen Collins Band. Musical career of Collins was affected by his personal tragedies at different points of time. 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. 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. 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. The simplest explanation is that Allison Collins is a racist who dislikes Asian people. She took a few incidences and labels and entire race as that way. Its not unreasonable on its face to question whether this is a system that makes sense from the perspective of how to allocate resources across every student in the district. The racist views against ALL Asian students, parents, and teachers (yes, she said that), has no role in policy making roles for the SFUSD. It included most of the Rossington Collins Band members excepting Krantz and Rossington and released the album Here, There & Back in 1983. Both were 1st in their families to go to college. He was a composer, known for Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), Straw Dogs (2011) and Speed Racer Times were very difficult since Allen's musical career barely brought in enough to support the Would this justify an Asian parent casting hateful racial slurs at all black students, parents and teachers? Those defending her on the grounds that Asians are racist against African Americans wake up. What is happening is Asian HR personnel are filtering out and removing the applicants that are of color. she ought to teach all children to work hard and have the competitive spirit, and not go through life with an unearned free pass. Those with 40k or 50k a year per kid get elite high schools, but 35% of Lowell on Free Lunch dont. Once, doing field research at Clemson we were working with a class of students who were morons at best, the genius teacher on site had rigged up a series of motor responses to flash cards to teach work skills. Otherwise, if youre new to the board, you have my vote. Thanks so much for writing what you did, you are so right. In a city where elected officials actually have been assassinated, there is no place for hiding or keeping silent when someone makes death threats against a public person. Hanging out, TV, video games, social media, conversations, etc. Thats the American way. Cookie Notice And they have the nerve to talk about White Privilege. In a vacuum, her 2016 tweets could have been excused if she had showed genuine remorse for her behavior. I expected at least a few paragraphs at the level of scholarship my 9th grader is using in his English assignments. You know why they bury regular fans 6 deep but bury Dodgers fans 10 under? Most readers are too clueless to know where is she coming from. According to Zhao, she took herself out of the running. They felt like theatre and politics. We belonged here! Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message. We will zap comments that fail to adhere to these short and very easy-to-follow rules. Which teacher did she report it to? Sign in with a password below, or sign in using your email. Im not saying American history should be covered up or ignored, but is this the kind of art you would want to hang in your own home? Well I walk in and I'm introduced to Amie--Allen Collin's first born. If Jenny Lam tweeted about anti-Asian attitudes in the Black community and cited the number of violent attacks against Asian Americans as evidence of these attitudes, all hell would break loose. 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. His Rather, parents want to have their children rewarded for excelling in school. The plane, according to History, was previously passed over by Aerosmith because the plane's crew made them wary. If someone says there are too many of YOU somewhere, you would be offended. Where is the logic in that? It is that we cannot judge a historical person using todays standards. You can try to spin it all you want, but thats the obvious conclusion. Collins is the only Black woman on the school board (though these tweets were written two years before her election). So youre telling me all the other elected officials who showed up at the press conference denouncing the death threats were duped because there werent really any death threats made against Collins and Lopez? But at the same time, the house negro status is a precarious one subject to the masters whims. WebThere are some familiar faces on this 1961 Ypsilanti High track team, Class A Regional titlist. Someone or some system has to be there to nurture that success. Now, she decided that being self-righteous is more important that trying to reach out to a part of the SF community that is in a lot of pain right now. I find it harmful to pit races against each other and to continue to tell race groups they are victims or if they worked hard and became successful to call them White adjacent and the problem, or they are the problem bc they are White no matter socio-economic status. Because this sentence is ignorant and not even wrong its incoherent in about 5 different ways, and the FIRST way its incoherent is that fatty acids do not have genetics; that is terminology that people in medicine apply to other molecules which contain actual genes. He married (2) RACHEL REED Bef. Is Dianne Feinstein an historical person or a living human being? 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. Among many Asian cultures hard work, family and commitment to excellence are very important. Asian Americans are sick and tired of her belittling!!! Have folks forgotten the racist and stereotypical mural Ellen Lee Zhou put up in SF of Mayor London Breed. Both are true. 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 . "Skynning" Europe alive. He later plead no contest to DUI manslaughter. Yes, hard work and admissions into top tier universities can lead to increased earnings, but not every Asian American is thriving. She took responsibility and stepped down, which is something Collins is refusing to do I dont see the comparison here. OK, if you want restoration, heres what Collins can do. We know exactly why Lowell and not SOTA. I took him up on it and got a Blue Bottle siphon. Some will agree with you, and others wont. When I met with Lauter about a decade ago after he read some posts of mine less than supportive of Israel, he invited me to coffee. the Amazon Associates Program via amazon.com. Collins has been judged guilty of using currently non-PC correlatives in her vernacular. Allen Collins married Kathy John in 1970. Humility is important. 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 seemed to be soliciting negative stories about Asian Americans in order to push her agenda. Success depends on many factors, but there is something called the immigrant paradox where even low-wage Asian families can thrive through hard work. Maybe the elementary and middle schools Pasta kids went to didnt have as good funding and not as many programs? Collins use of the term House N***** is an accurate term when used to describe the position given to Asians in a white dominated society. I have hereby decided that Herman Melvilles Moby Dick is a light comedia dellarte about the game of golf cool, okay, got it. But to lump us all into the same group as some teenagers who made fun of some kid in her daughters school? To add insult to injury she states that she knows Asian culture because her kids went to an Asian school. Nice to know she stands by those racial stereotypes. Perhaps Ms. Collins was expecting too much of her audience to expect them to be familiar with Black History. Yeah, languages are dynamic things and they grow and contract both naturally and by the intentional influence of various groups for various reasons. If I, a non-doctor, were to spout off in a public forum with a sentence like You better not take that vaccine, its going to alter the genetic conformation of the omega-5 fatty acids in your body and give you chronic Lyme disease, I would be roundly and justifiably ridiculed by people with expertise in medicine. Thanks for your comments. She was rightfully let go. 2. His oldest daughter is Amie Collins who was born in 1971. So dont get offended at the implication on average Asian kids try harder in school. Born at St. Lukes Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida on July 19, 1952, Allen (delivered by Doctor Owens) weighed in at 7 pounds, 14 ounces. Pledge to care about kids as much as union reps or more in all policy. believe they benefit from the model minority BS. Collins continued in 2016. Maybe no English speaking guardians that could help with reading? 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. Americans are pretty deliberately clueless about Black History especially militant Black leaders like Malcolm X. However, while the school district is 40% Asian American, not all Asian Americans thrive academically. She would have already been cancelled by the Woke Wave. Well I walk in and I'm introduced to Amie--Allen Collin's first born. And the success of Africans and Asians proves whites arent racist. Why is it that racism coming from the left complicated while racism from the right is clear as day? Does she not realize that its her way of thinking that is causing the divisiveness? Character was important as evidenced by Martin Luther Kings famous speech.

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