get by effectively getting rid of its nationally renowned public college prep school. Our schools need to be an opportunity for all races and ethnicities to succeed. Then to equate Asians as house Ns who align to white supremacism ideology shows total ignorance of Chinese history. I find it intriguing that I havent seen a simple point anywhere. Thanks again, kind sirs! Asians just shut up, get to work and make that money. To say I got (and, still do) a ton of crap for quoting those verses from the Oxford Revised Standard Version . Why refer to Asian Americans as if the community is monolithic? Test scores show this move didnt help black kids do better, but it did hurt white and Asian kids. He was NOT allowed but an Asian man was allowed to go to his wife who was also a fatality. dont call me doctor, unless you are a patient who is a baby, toddler or adolescent. It all comes down to what T.S. Youre suggesting that these terms have universal definitions that are widely accepted by scholars. Im saying that the scholars defining this field arent actually scholars, and ipso facto, neither you nor anyone else can say that weve defined any of these terms in a way that has been accepted universally. Collins is the only Black woman on the school board (though these tweets were written two years before her election). And if youre going to use the term house n****r to refer to Asians why have an Asian name in your Twitter bio? I dont even have kids, but after the school renaming debacle and the fact that schools are still closed after we put teachers at the front of the line for vaccines, I will vote against every incumbent on the ballot. No amount of nuance can excuse calling another race house n*****s. Your grandstanding masks a contempt for the unwashed masses. And they have the nerve to talk about White Privilege. Enjoying the misfortune of others seems to cut across many barriers, including intelligence. Bet thats on the year-end spelling test. 1 is Racism in society, which is a theory insulting to whites and unfair, as antiracism is literally our national religion and any white person acting racist is targeted for destruction and hated by nearly all other whites. Based on her actionsnot just with these tweets, but in all the board meetings, in person, and on social mediashes someone who believes her perspective is the correct one, naysayers be damnned. She also attacked Lowell because a Pakistani American Senior made a slightly awkward poster. This word describes the position with which Asian-Americans reside in the American racial hierarchy and the direction where loyalties are placed. Coupled with the lingering effects of losing his friends in the plane crash, Kathy's death devastated Allen. I thought a member of the board has to resign or be recalled (which requires 70k signatures, pen on paper). Your humble narrator was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine from 2015 to 2017. Mission Local produces enterprise-reporting on SFs most critical issues: police reform, corruption, public health, housing and homelessness. They just happened to be toasted sandwich loving kids. 2021, is the year we speak up. 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. Mere use of that phrase is not necessarily a reference of any sort. Like yesterday. 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. We will zap comments that fail to adhere to these short and very easy-to-follow rules. How often do you hear news of Asians committing violent crimes against Blacks? We are the ones weve been waiting for. The drugs led to the car accident. She has expressed anti-Asian sentiment to many times and never showed any curiosity as to how Asian Americans out-earn whites quickly, nor Nigerian Americans. Dont even try to justify racist, misdirected hate coming from a school board member. Josephine Zhao apologized and dropped out after her comments were reported. She wants students to be equally less successful. If she gets away with this then what message are we sending to the school kids? These tweets do not read well. She has a school named after her, and she is far from perfect. She states the Asian American community dont need help because she believes we are crazy rich Asians. Learn More{{/message}}, {{#message}}{{{message}}}{{/message}}{{^message}}It appears your submission was successful. Your mother was the founder of AIPAC, no? She is incapable of building bridges. I never heard Trump DENIGRATE a race. Black kids study less than whites, are 4 years behind in reading by 12th grade, 5 behind Asians, and parents are less likely to teach the kids to read. 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. 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. We have to think about how different communities learn and the different biases. 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. She should be helping black kids by encouraging them to study as many hours as the average Asian kid did and sacrifice fun activities, and show the stats of income and success if they disagree. Ahhh, Earth is a great place to be a writer of my ilk. I say that as a brown girl whose eyes were opened this year, and who now gets it. When conservatives play race politics, they do so awkwardly and clumsily. This brings up another parable of the pot calling the kettle black. Joe has his facts right, strikes a tone that fits a combination of objectivity and amazement at where this has gone, and jumps in to respond to readers. This happens in an unconscious way over a period of time. The school district and Board of Education are presently staving off a lawsuit filed by the City Attorney regarding those sclerotic reopening plans. Is that really designed to make opportunity more equal? 2023 Getty Images. If you study equal hours, you can claim you are no lazier. But, afterward, they were still committed to assimilating and getting ahead, by working hard and saving their money like good white supremacists; enough to pay for their sons college education and then, later, retire. This is the classic parable of ones chickens coming home to roost. Seems like whoever is fighting to keep them up is forgetting this is the place where kids are SUPPOSED to spend 7-8 hours a days 5 a week. Yet today, they ask Mayor Breed for help and millions of $$$ to fund an program for Asian protection. thank you, MER, for your heartfelt, educated and eloquent 3/25 post. believe they benefit from the model minority BS. Collins continued in 2016. In 1970, Allen married Kathy Johns. 1822. Nothing Asians say or do prevents black kids from studying harder. The mayor has the power to Zhou was NEVER apologetic, in fact she laughed while giving an interview on this disgusting mural. Never mind that the toasted sandwich loving kids studied and passed exams etc to get into the school-Alison thinks that kids who like pasta should be given a chance to go to this school just because there are too many toasted sandwich liking kids at Lowell. If you were really true believers in the idea of equality, you would be trying to fix the issues in the public schools rather than hiding in private schools. Research shows 60% of Asian American kids start Kindergarten knowing to read. Actually, Id argue that the James Lick issue is less problematic 18 years after dying is a lot less of a problem than two years before getting elected. They cant remove her (as in impeachment), but they are within the rules to remove her as vice chair of the Board and to remove her from all committee assignments. They have to save and not waste money. Its a fact. I think were good here. And that means having a basic understanding of the terms used by CRT so you can have an intelligent discussion about them, not bloviating away because you cant be bothered to absorb the actual perspectives of the people whose texts youre angrily responding to. fell off. I must be obtuse, because I do not understand the double standard at play here. I dont think they are comparable at all. We are hurt and in pain, especially seeing her unapologetic face today. Less than ten minutes later, the plane crashed into a densely wooded thicket in the middle of a swamp. 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. Thats a sign she doesnt respect achievement, and as poor Asians achieve more in school tests than middle income whites, as do Nigerian immigrants, its also a sign she doesnt respect Asians for their achievements. Is this the San Francisco school board leadership! #condenscendingtwat. The accomplished AAPI is a doctor. Very amateurish. I also think that if families work hard and push their kids to work hard to achieve the American dream that is a good thing. Heres the latest: Lam and Moliga will introduce a resolution on Thursday calling for fellow member Alison Collins to be removed as vice president and stripped of all of her committee assignments.. Larkin Allen Collins Jr. was an American musician and songwriter known for his association with southern-rock bands Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Rossington Collins Band, and The Allen Collins Band. He was a founding member and guitarist of Lynyrd Skynyrd. He co-wrote many of its hit songs like 'Gimme Three Steps' and 'Free Bird with its late frontman, Ronnie Van Zant. Comparing white people to demons is beyond the pale. Sadly, neoliberal, identity politics as practiced these days offered up a political target that conservatives could not decline to engage on. How would you feel? Absolutely not. The strange and terrible saga of Alison Collins and her ill Required fields are marked *, {{#message}}{{{message}}}{{/message}}{{^message}}Your submission failed. Collins and his new band were refreshed and ready to go on their debut tour, so they hit the road. 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. Are you now OK to go ahead with cancelling Allison Collins? 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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. but the fact that she veered into labeling and name calling seemed gratuitous. 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. Blacks have every opportunity to prove as an individual they want to learn by sacrificing those hours. Everyone takes the same test to get into Lowell. Nothing, serious no blood or broken bones but it made the other kids laugh at the student who suffered the mishap. (Claiming that Lowell or charter schools cream the best students isnt a knock on the STUDENTS; its a knock on the claim that the SCHOOLS are what make these students elite. This is bullshit.. As a Mom of Asian kids in the school system I can no longer trust Collins decisions on their behalf. Allen included his band mates in his wedding party, but Kathy worried that their long haired appearance would disturb her parents. I think you are wrong, I think putting what she said in historical reference makes the whole house n***** reference make a lot more reasonable. "Skynning" Europe alive. For her, to pander and hope They worked thousands of hours and spend tens of thousands of dollars on tutoring, and spent time teaching their kids to read before kindergarten (60% of Asian American parents in California teach their kids to read before starting Kindergarten, compared to 16% of whites), made sure they read books every Summer, did workbooks and flashcards with them, read to them, met with teachers and made sure they did everything possible to get all As over other temptations. Big yikes. Hanging out, TV, video games, social media, conversations, etc. He did it and I think that she has a nuanced view of race relations. Thanks again. Awful person, awful statements. Despite her explicitly anti-transgender advocacy (in 2013 Zhao advocated against gender-neutral bathrooms in San Francisco schools) , Mayor London Breed and state Senator Scott Wiener were proud to endorse her and support her candidacy. She is equating academic success with acting white, which is the most destructive thing a black parent could do. I have friends of all races. Masterful. She needs to take a good look at the mirror before she calls anyone else a house Ni****. We see only Latinos and Afro Latinos, thats FOUL and DISGUSTING. 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. Asian Americans were indeed on Trumps list. shaming yourself? 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? She needs to resign. Collinss generalizations were clumsily phrased and overbroad, but her basic points are completely sound and backed by data from AAPI researchers who have studied attitudes about race in AAPI communities. 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. In recognition of an extremely high level of academic excellence, a President's List is compiled each academic semester. She was using the term House N***** as a euphemism for Model Minority. kids, 4.3 miles from his birthplace and 5,474 from hers. 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. Like something out of a Hollywood parody about hillbullies. These included sudden death of his wife and later a car accident that left him paralyzed and his girlfriend dead. The attitude some blacks have holds others down. Scan this QR code to download the app now. 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