He married (2) RACHEL REED Bef. (Collins Chinese name, , is pronounced in Cantonese as Go Lai Si. The first character, which is an actual Chinese last name, translates as tall or high. The second translates as to encourage. The last means to think. These are all words and notions that would figure to appeal to Asian voters looking at Board of Education candidates. Is Dianne Feinstein an historical person or a living human being? Can you help a person who doesnt want to be helped? Getting a job requires an employer to give you a benefit of a doubt at some point. Collins lost control of the car, drove the vehicle off the road, and flipped the vehicle in a violent crash. Set aside the incendiary last tweet and the question of whether or not she was channeling Malcolm X for a moment. Success depends on many factors, but there is something called the immigrant paradox where even low-wage Asian families can thrive through hard work. Respectfully disagree with your view. This is spineless, deceitful, and hurtful to all Asians and anyone with an ounce of ethics in their body. We are finally in a climate where more of the mainstream is actually (supposedly) listening to Black voices. It can make a black family feel like a minority and very left out of this pretty prosperous city. i hope her Absolutely not. Pasta loving kids should be let in-not based on merit, but based on the fact that they happen to love pasta? Theory #3 is effort. Her main mistake was in not realizing that her audience was ignorant and racist. For all of the mostly white, wealthy families advocating so much for antiracism, why are your kids attending private schools? Time is beyond up for Washington, Lincoln and all the troubling individuals after whom some SFUSD schools are named. Ive not been a fan of Collins. Collins, in her tweets, recounts her own lived experience and that of her daughters. She would have already been cancelled by the Woke Wave. Have we suddenly forgotten that mayoral candidate Ellen Lee Zhou and during her campaign, Zhou ran into controversy for paying to erect a billboard that depicted a racist scene involving Mayor London Breed. So, I shouldnt be surprised at this backyard fence full of screaming magpies gaining mutual pleasure from hurting someone. This story sounds like its gonna be juicy, but doesnt meet the hype in the end. Which teacher did she report it to? No one wants to discuss the fact some races study more and try to fix it by convincing, selling kids on the idea hard work will pay off and it is your moral duty to show your content of character by studying hard, long hours, to be a good and improved person. This thing with Commissioner Collins use of the words current at the time to describe in the most understandable format . Collins and Lopez destroyed what families had worked thousands of hours to earn, for everyone, out of spite for those who work hard, out of a belief all minorities shouldnt try to assimilate and learn but instead should work together to create a socialist utopia. Her presumable primary audience for these tweets was other activists, and this is reflected in the language she used; shes paraphrasing a Malcolm X speech and shes using terms that come directly from CRT and related schools of thought. No. Does Ms. Collins ouster send a message ( I doubt it as weve been firing people over this for decades and it still happens)? Get another line of work. vote to remove the merit-based entrance system at Lowell High School. But it is the argument. Born at St. Lukes Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida on July 19, 1952, Allen (delivered by Doctor Owens) weighed in at 7 pounds, 14 ounces. These are all subjective judgments that we rely on to be successful. We've recently sent you an authentication link. Nothing could be further from the truth. In her head, she is advocating for AAPI and those defending her believe this to be true. No. It also included Skynyrd members Billy Powell and Leon Wilkeson, in addition to female lead vocalist, Dale Krantz. She doesnt acknowledge studying is a choice, with girls of all races studying more than boys of the same race in all cases. She wants students to be equally less successful. Anyone defending and accepting this type of behavior and standing behind her ( Gabriela Lpez) must be removed! If youre complaining people missed nuance and context, maybe it wasnt there to start with. Learn to live with empathy and compassion. With this position, this fortunate Asian will have access to the huge stash of opportunities which the white establishment has hoarded. One final parable, as the emperor has now been revealed as wearing no clothes. She committed a damage worse than carjacking to thousands of Asian American families. 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. It is why Asians are over represented at Lowell, not because they seek to align with white supremacists. Now, more than ever, both sides need to come together, stand together, listen together, and heal together. While her views may be different, her tactics are ironically the same as Trump. She took a few incidences and labels and entire race as that way. but the fact that she veered into labeling and name calling seemed gratuitous. Its the American ideology of rugged individualism and hard work.. This is a lot to take in bc it is a broad stroke and I am trying to understand it myself. Driving near his home in Jacksonville, Allen crashed his car in an accident which killed his girlfriend and left him permanently paralyzed from the waist down. In closing and the truth is, who really continues to really be discriminated here, they are BLACK and Latinos in this county and city, they continue to be KILLED and DISCRIMINATED by the police and society its a fact. 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. 1975's Torture Tour. What your parents did is no big deal so-blacks have been doing that shit for years ..ok do they escaped from their homeland to come here for a better life from the same people that bombed, murdered and destroyed the infrastructure of Loas,killing babies ,young children,women animals destroyed the forest poisoned the waters , destroyed the rice fields etc,etc but everythings great because you got a little tech job..you are not concerned about what Ms Collins said youre just jumping on the white band wagon of hate. The attitude some blacks have holds others down. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. The drugs led to the car accident. Instead calling us house n*****, why doesnt she focus on education, self improvement and hard work. Nice to know she stands by those racial stereotypes. 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. She called hundreds of Lowell parents, mostly Asian, racist on a hot mic and destroyed Lowell, a world class school many Asians and others are very proud of in world rankings, #2 on AP. 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. Do we agree her lawsuit is offensive and completely self-defeating? Seriously, just for making the statement bc of the strong implication against the communities that do not succeed that we dont feel these are important in our culture. Keep this sort of stuff in museums or cultural centers, not places extended consistent work/ education. We have to understand the contextcalling someone a house n for doing well in school and getting in to lowell and then to UC and then getting a great job is a gross distortion of what malcolm x was talking about(because he was speaking specifically about blacks).using the model minority concept and equating it to house ns makes sense only if you feel all minorities must side with certain political and racial ideologies.her entire folly is to assume that asian people must submit and further woke agendas, and if they dont they are siding with white supremacy.Malcolm spoke in the context of independence not in the forced integration and forced equity that the woke mob intends to imposethe collective freakout the bay had because of trump is not an excuse, forced solidarity is not true solidarity.blaming those that mastered the system as siding with the supposed master, and subsequently complicit in the oppression of others is a truely distorted sense of reality.inequity does not racism make just because your woke guru said so. Damn H, dropping the n-word and then telling Collins you go, girl. Savage. She attacks Lowell for having the wrong demographics and being merit based, but sends her own daughters to SOTA, which is merit based and has just as disproportional demographics. How often do you hear news of Asians committing violent crimes against Blacks? She wont do this because she is extremely narrow minded and hateful. The wedding is kind of a light page in the dark book of Collins's life. Casting hateful racist language at an entire group does. What does S.F. The outraged creditors are demanding payment on that mushrooming debt and until they get paid, nobody should expect an easy ride. If they do hire a Black or Latino applicant, that is a front that the manager to show fairness in the hiring process. There are a lot of hurt people and a lot of hurt communities. If an Asian person internalizes the model minority stereotypes, they will have proven to the real whites in charge they are worthy. It is totally ignorant for her to equate academics with White Supremacy. And Collins soon gave them little reason to be. 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. This American work ethic is not simply a measure of personal will and action; on top of that, it is used to judge a persons character as good or bad. 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. Presumably, they have reasons for arranging their systems like this. Collins is anti Asian as seen through her tweets and her actions. Dial down the very palpable contempt, your academic privileged is showing. Not only is that racist, but woefully ignorant. 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. I dont think you would agree either. I received a class A education throughout my life yet I was in the dark on much of it until this past year. He later plead no contest to DUI manslaughter. Your lecture was that she had no idea she should be unhappy and advocate for AAPI not to go down that path bc it is White supremacist thinking. why dont you work harder in life instead of What if someone tweeted that insert Your race used white supremacy thinking to get ahead? They approached and convinced Collins to join them. Access the best of Getty Images with our simple subscription plan. It sounded like she is hiding behind her daughter and taking potshots at Asian Americans. Ask her to look around before she insults us again. Its a shame that the likes of Allison Collins is what passes as representative of progressive San Francisco. If there are any that have tried to stand up against the majority on these issues, let me know. And if I then doubled down again and again that I was Very Accomplished and that I Worked Very Hard and Humbly to be a leader in my field and that my Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies entitled me to be taken very seriously about medicine, I would just sound like a clownish, arrogant, unbelievably lazy idiot. The death threats were sent to an account called SFGAL8, not Collins and Lopez. Its not. Lazier parents and kids embrace the easier, more fun choices. Like yesterday. it said it all. Some sjws have gotten too comfortable with anti-asian racism. By Gawd, man, its an attack upon Prince Harrys tongue!!! If she wanted to make progress, she wouldnt spend all her time on cosmetic BS and put together after school and tutoring support for inner city students, build programs that pair mentors (e.g. However, meritocracy in the United States is a myth. Earlier in 1979, he performed at Volunteer Jam V at Skynyrds first stage performance since the plane crash. The Stud, W. H. Allen (London), 1969; World Publishing, 1970. The accident unfortunately led to an abrupt end to the 1970s era of Skynyrd. Feinstein has been cancelled already. alison tried to openly shame her perceived asian enemies/competitors, but it backfired. If she wanted to walk me through it or walk anyone through it, the chance was there. I thought a member of the board has to resign or be recalled (which requires 70k signatures, pen on paper). 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. No, we dont. Shes unapologetic and she probably doesnt want another chance. Otherwise they were used to attack and brazenly. Collins is absolutely right about us benefiting from this model minority myth! Then it all fell away at 6000 feet above a Mississippi swamp. The SAT/ACT is being phased out by 1,600 colleges and universities in this country in the meantime during the pandemic. Kids who choose to study choose not to hang out, watch TV, talk, play video games, or go on social media. I think there is so much prejudice in San Francisco and it is mostly directed at communities of color. Through all the degrees and academics, you all have forgot how to carry on adult conversations. Your contribution is essential to our work. Would this justify an Asian parent casting hateful racial slurs at all black students, parents and teachers? Have you read Malcolm Xs speech? Collins and his new band were refreshed and ready to go on their debut tour, so they hit the road. If she were really sorry shed reverse making Lowell Lottery, renaming 44 schools and not reopening, and ending honors and 8th grade algebra. This is whats in her heart. Webthe Secret life of Wilkie,. The atmosphere in December 2016 was not the same as it is in March 2021. I did not call her an idiot for believing in the American Dream, youve just completely made that claim up with zero textual evidence. 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. Josephine Zhao apologized and dropped out after her comments were reported. This privilege is NOT afforded to Nigerians, Latinos, Trinidadians, Africans, Iranians but to Asians. Allison is related to Cindy R Collins and Catelyn Renee Edwards as well as 1 additional person. All of this is super messy and a part of the whitelash that comes from trying to make systemic change. Many Asians despite pressures to excel in school, still find themselves living on the economic margins in poverty. 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. After healing up from the plane crash, he got together with Gary Rossington and other former Lynyrd Skynyrd bandmates and formed the Rossington-Collins Band. In 1963, Allen lived in Jacksonville's Cedar Hills area when an older friend received a guitar for his birthday. Even explaining this, she was called racist. 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. She has too much pride to admit when shes wrongthat was evident even before those tweets came to light. Full stop. I also think it was harder for the black community more than any other community because of systematic racism. She didnt get drunk and say something insulting to Asians which didnt represent what is truly in her heart. 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). Complaints have been filed on this discrimination that is UNFAIR hiring and DISCRIMINATION against people of color. I never heard Trump DENIGRATE a race. Nigerian Americans, and most African immigrants, are less lazy than whites in school and parenting. Initially the band was named My Backyard, then The Noble Five and by 1968 it was called The One Percent before finally zeroing on the name Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1969. well, lets just say my life was threatened. Its not okay for a black woman to put others down. It is that we cannot judge a historical person using todays standards. Lynyrd Skynyrd had met a sudden, tragic end. I doubt Ms. Collins would take to that lightly, but thats EXACTLY what she did. Ask most Asian American families who fit this scenario one question. Collins must go for the good of SFUSD. Part of Allen's sentence from his car wreck, called for him to use his fame and influence to warn kids of the dangers of drunk driving. The words that other people say mean whatever I want them to mean, and I am entitled to just make up my own silly, context-free interpretation of their words anytime I want without fear of criticism. I mean some people are just jumping on the bandwagon but reasonable people will realize she was referencing Malcolm X and have more sympathy for the context. 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. 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