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Is Allison Collins from The Allison Collins Band Allen Collins daughter? And there is the ongoing misery regarding the citys shuttered schools, spaced-out Zoom students, declining enrollment and the school boards deliberate decision to not hire a consultant to form pandemic plans. She shouldnt use an anecdote to generalize a whole race. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/us/san-francisco-schools-racism.html?searchResultPosition=3. And, that would be a correct assumption. Just imagine if she were a Trump supporting conservative. That was the prophet, Samuel giving marching orders to Israels first king, Saul. As America is dedicated to anti-racism, that is a serious threat and lives are ruined over accusations of racism. Great work, Joe. Black kids study less than whites, on average. She punished thousands of families and openly called them racist for something a couple people they dont know did. Sorry, you simply do not understand these terms as they are used by people who think about and discuss race as a living, and should either read some books about the subject so you know what youre talking about or stop commenting. So in turn, whats being communicated to Black folks (aka field negroes) is if they model that behavior, they will also achieve success. Sort of like the Lowell entrance exam. However, it saw an abrupt end following the death of some of its members in an airplane crash that left Collins seriously injured. She called it an incident. Therefore you had #2 % in the world in passing AP Tests, which takes tremendous work and morality. After only a few a days of traveling, the tour was canceled, because Kathy Collins had died. I will give you an example: Lets take a sport like volleyball and pretend that Americans wished to transform the sport to be more inclusive and diverse by eliminating merit based admissions (no need to count the scores, it will make the kids who are not good at it feel bad). Shell never survive a recall effort now. Read Triple Package. get by effectively getting rid of its nationally renowned public college prep school. Collins was comparing white supremacy to demons, not white people. Because, deep down, Dodgers fans are good people. Nothing Asians say or do prevents black kids from studying harder. Thats fair. And thats why every last vestige of San Francisco government is now calling for Collins to step down. It made it hard to get into. Theres nothing meaningful about Lowell. One woman should not stand in the way of solidarity, and Alison Collins needs to recognize that and resign. Ask her to look around before she insults us again. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida. I know theres a lot of passion here but we defeat the whole purpose of this dialogue by going off on each other, because that will create deeper division and this will continue to happen. Geoffrey Canada says black kids and parents have to sacrifice as many hours as it takes. We are ourselves and we know exactly what to feel and think when we see a racist. i do not want to read or respond anymore to your infantile tantrums and Its a crisis and claiming merit is racist does nothing to solve it. She would have already been cancelled by the Woke Wave. My mom was a poor Chinese immigrant and my dad was was a poor working class White kid. Is this the San Francisco school board leadership! Should we add you to that list of scholars as well? However, meritocracy in the United States is a myth. Parents have to make enough money or make enough sacrifices to provide a stable environment for learning. Coupled with the lingering effects of losing his friends in the plane crash, Kathy's death devastated Allen. Anyone defending and accepting this type of behavior and standing behind her ( Gabriela Lpez) must be removed! During the first days of the stressful debut concert tour, Allen's wife Kathy passed away forcing the tour's cancellation. By signing up, you agree to our Terms and Conditions. Please, check your inbox! Go to China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, The US, Canada.anywhere in the world with a Chinese culture and you will find a familial devotion to education as a means to provide financial security for your family. Who were the perpetrators? The third result is Allison Collins age 20s in Muncie, IN in the Orchard Lawn neighborhood. Because Collins is not wrong!! What kind of mind and character demands that? Collins must resign! Overall people just seem to get along with each other and having friends and acquaintances from all groups is the norm. But if she does, I will not call for her to resign. Collins's injuries from the crash included broken vertebrae and a wound to his arm, according to Rolling Stone. By the definition you guys are provided why are Ados not running the county their community was brought here from Africa to do break backing work to build the county . Stereotypes about Asian-American citizens continue to hurt and harm people, both personally and professionally. Can you help a person who doesnt want to be helped? Their racism is in pursuit of a greater good so if you dont like their racism, its because you are racist. The accident unfortunately led to an abrupt end to the 1970s era of Skynyrd. 1975's Torture Tour. They approached and convinced Collins to join them. 11. The Stereotype Threat is when you are stereotyped, you end up becoming that stereotype. You are as much if a white supremacist as Trumps followers, except they come in wolfs clothing. Lowell gave a reward for hard work. You assert this as if it were absolute fact. The next Board of Education meeting is slated for 3 p.m. today, and it remains to be seen how good and pleasant that will be. None of us spoke out against Trump? If the Negro wasnt taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. Those with 40k or 50k a year per kid get elite high schools, but 35% of Lowell on Free Lunch dont. Collins uses this type of inflammatory rhetoric constantly. These are not good and pleasant times. This hate from her is especially obvious on her attacks on Lowell. That being said, when running for office, isnt purging ones social media pro forma? Calling everyone not with you racist lol this proves you are a friend of Collins, thats what she did exactly in our school board meeting. To add insult to injury she states that she knows Asian culture because her kids went to an Asian school. For Collins not to acknowledge why so many Asian Americans, including former allies and endorsers, would react so strongly, for her not to pick up on the raw pain Asian Americans are feeling now this is more than a political miscalculation. Thanks for your comments. i know i cant change peoples warped perception I have two kids in SFUSD and seeing so little African American kids in the district is very sad and made me think what is it like for those kids that are so much in the minority. 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. She is no longer a private citizen but a public official. Kathy had a fatal haemorrhage during miscarriage of the couples third child in 1980. 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. He along with his sister and mother Eva went through a tough time when his parents divorced. To add insult to injury, The Chinese American Alliance sent out a message titled Comrades dont stay silent and support San Francisco mayoral candidate Ellen Lee Zhou, in which it trashed San Francisco and asked for donations and support for her campaign. Her statement is racist because she made negative generalizations (anti-Black) about a race (Asians) based on personal anecdotes (her friends feelings and an incident her daughter witnessed). Have you seen Collins face? According to Zhao, she took herself out of the running. Youre essentially saying Its not racist if its the truth! You sound exactly like the racist white supremacists youre supposedly against. Collins is now in the difficult position shes in not just because of what she wrote in 2016, but how she handled matters when confronted on it in 2021. After WWII, Jews were deemed to be fully white. Do we agree her lawsuit is offensive and completely self-defeating? 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. Do not denigrate the curiosity, dedication, assiduous work ethic, talent of these Lowell students. It all comes down to what T.S. Saying that you value family and academics implies that Blacks and Browns do not. Less hateful, less bigoted. you are not grandiose as you claim. Sam Lauter was former SF AIPAC chief and has been a corporate lobbyist and campaign consultant for candidates and measures that that repeatedly and successfully targeted Black and brown communities in San Francisco for exploitation by conservative Democrats on behalf of their speculator clients for decades. No, there are a large variety of answers. They have to study 10,000 more hours over a childhood than now and spend 10,000 hours less relaxing. Why shes speaking on our behalf? Shortly after dissolution of Rossington Collins Band in 1982, Collins started Allen Collins Band in 1983. Just not Allison Collins. You dont see Asian children in immigration dog cages and taken and separated from their parents by immigration. Awful person, awful statements. I believe there are more good than bad in each race. So, where was I before I went for another gummie? Thousands of families. 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). Ask most Asian American families who fit this scenario one question. 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? The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images. I can also promise you that if a Black male were at the scene, he too would have been stereotyped, detained and gunned down by the police, no questions asked. never found any evidence to support that except for the I dont know but I know there are MANY MANY variants. Not one peep. Collins then joined hands with Rossington to form Rossington Collins Band in 1979. Go through ten anti-Collins comments and youll inevitably find one with the sentiment Collins is just jealous because Asians are successful because they work hard. The obvious subtext is that the commenter believes that the reason black Americans are less socioeconomically successful is that they, as a group, are lazy. The silence and absence of Asian American elected officials when Collins and Lopez were being targeted is not a way to move toward a fair, just and equitable society, regardless of anyones position on or disagreements about certain or even many policy proposal. 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. Collins herself sends her kids to Ruth Asawa SOTA, which also has selective admissions. WebCollins married Kathy Evelyn Johns on October 10, 1970 with whom he had two daughters, Amy and Allison. 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. Left-leaning San Francisco politicians calling for Collins resignation both Asian and not Asian know the score. Do I hate all races because a small subset of them said derogatory slurs to me? She has actively pursued policies that specifically hurt Asian American children more than any other group. This happens in an unconscious way over a period of time. Even the *reporters* who have been giddily covering this controversy have no interest in engaging with any of this stuff as context for their stories that would help readers make sense of what Collins meant; the level of sophistication that the average Chron journalist has on this topic is OOOH that lady used the n-word, that automatically means she did a racism.. Please stop saying we are influenced like we are stupid. What are the disadvantages of a clapper bridge? 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. Josephine Zhao apologized and dropped out after her comments were reported. 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. She plays the race card in every instance possible where there is an angle to play it for political gain or social capital, but she herself is married to a rich white guy. She isnt sorry at all. Everyone takes the same test to get into Lowell. 2021, is the year we speak up. Or being an anti-Asian racist. If the esteemed doctor is going to start popping off while cluelessly not understanding the meanings of the words shes criticizing (because shes too ignorant/lazy to familiarize herself with the world that Collins comes from), well, thats her right, but she sounds like a fool. are yall dumbyou want to be oppressed so bad.dude this black women is literally telling you that you are over represented in SF schools asshole. The wedding also, according to Lynyrd Skynyrd History, featured one of the first performances of the iconic song "Free Bird.". The Board of Education has been in the headlines a bit even prior to the pandemic, and these were not flattering headlines. I for a fact know that systematic racism and bias plays a hand at the lack of support and resources provided to Black students compared to other races. Maybe Commissioner Collins deserves the same opportunity be given credit for what she has done and to work with others to learn from past mistakes. She was not afforded any context or nuance in the judgement, nor is she getting any arestorative justice, all of which Collins is asking for for herself. lololololololol i only have a Ph.D in Ethnic Studies ***for the purposes of having a tidy and illustrative hypothetical***, you dimwitted schmucko. Showing respect for and listening to the perspectives of others will often lead to progress which is good for everyone. 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). Complaints have been filed on this discrimination that is UNFAIR hiring and DISCRIMINATION against people of color. So lets just say its not racelets just say she said there are too many kids that like toasted sandwiches at this school. Do not dismiss the multiple jobs and sacrifices that many immigrant or poor families make to send their kids to Lowell. Totally and completely agree with Jim Ausman. There is no kinder, gentler capitalism. 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. Why refer to Asian Americans as if the community is monolithic? Where is the logic in that? Her main mistake was in not realizing that her audience was ignorant and racist. Not to mention the treatment of the Bantu in Somalia, or conditions in Nigeria, etc. 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. If parents dont make enough money, then there has to be a system to get them back on their feet. Thats cruel. Please do not underestimate how much these students support and encourage each other to learn, to study hard and to achieve academically more than they realize themselves. The entire rest of the thread was racist and really problematic. Jan. 25, 1990 12 AM PT. Collins lost control of the car, drove the vehicle off the road, and flipped the vehicle in a violent crash. against Asian-American families. Even during that horrific moment, a male of color (Latino male) was already being stereotyped, looked at as the killer and detained. I dont even think the tweets are the strongest reasons for Collins to leave. Does she have a place in mind where she would prefer Asians to live and go to school? The school district and Board of Education are presently staving off a lawsuit filed by the City Attorney regarding those sclerotic reopening plans. Now, more than ever, both sides need to come together, stand together, listen together, and heal together. Hey, my parents were fundamentalist Pentacostal hillbillies and they taught us kids everything but fear. Gary Rossington and Allen Collins had performed at a few special jams, and slowly began planning a new band. Youre wasting your breath, Im afraid. He was 37 years old. Immigrants prove that. To see so many people on here both for & against Collins for the wrong reason makes me realize how bad this ideology has poisoned your school system. Actions speak louder than words. 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. Good person vs bad person. With this position, this fortunate Asian will have access to the huge stash of opportunities which the white establishment has hoarded. Years after Collins death, on March 13, 2006, Skynyrd was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. accident. She is asking us to police our language while using her ethnic background as excuse to hurt others. Perhaps Ms. Collins should ask the Asian American community before she speaks on our behalf. I thought a member of the board has to resign or be recalled (which requires 70k signatures, pen on paper). Their latest album, Street Survivors, had just been released to critical and popular acclaim. It used to be you needed all As, which requires a very moral upbringing, very focused hard work from the child and good leadership from parents. Many Asians despite pressures to excel in school, still find themselves living on the economic margins in poverty. Boards are the best place to save images and video clips. G.H. This is on point. She punished thousands of people at Lowell for this. It fits the narrative of school sucks because they are surrounded by historical situations that suck, every day. Even though the server responded OK, it is possible the submission was not processed. Ms. Collins demands that others agree to her bizarre premises before she will have a conversation with them. Well played right winged SF parents and Madame Mayor. Thats the American way. Her death devastated Collins. However, the pull of creating music was too strong for Allen to walk away from. There are more than 5,300 universities and colleges in the United States. Thats my interpretation of the history of the approach of systems and structures of power to stewarding white supremacy. https://youtu.be/PuGkVzeh4zM And your continued success requires others to think highly of you. YOU are the one that has to start centering black culture and indigenous culture in your work. We need to focus on habits, not accusing others of racism. have more self respect!! to know where Allison is. Its never going to be perfect. Interesting how Lauter echoes the Israeli disdain for existing populations and their ongoing oppression with his support of local relatively recent (compared to Blacks) migrants by choice and their descendants over the descendants of chattel slaves who capitalized the nation and have been consistently, summarily disenfranchised. 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. Who makes the plaid blue coat Jesse stone wears in Sea Change? Chinese American parents in the 1990s were so race aware that they filed a lawsuit to upend the desegregation consent decree for neighborhood schools just as they are raging in favor of performance segregation to elite schools that are not neighborhood schools. 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. 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. 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