Does this represent everyone? Tragedy struck Allen's life again just as the Rossington Collins Band started. "Skynning" Europe alive. 1. Making Lowell a lottery school, eliminating 8th grade algebra and banning willful defiance suspensions, and eliminating honors, just to name a few. You said it- most asian americans do not harbor anti-black feelings. Thats fair. But Collins was/is a major and vocal proponent of that process and the concept. But, regardless of the political intentions of the Lowell partisans and recall folks who got this ball rolling there are plenty of awkward-at-best comments about Black people to be found on the Internet, and the married couple pushing the Board of Education recall went on race-bating conspiracy-theorist Glenn Becks program the tweets say what they say. Both my parents graduated from Lowell and went on to Berkeley. More black men abandon their kids or dont marry before the kid is born. Bassist Larry Junstrom also joined in. Are we reverting back to segregation? Feinstein is being cancelled and the school name will be removed. 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. as mentioned in Triple Package would be unique, so the goal is to get all Americans to behave more like all those groups and change their core beliefs, patriotism, work ethic and decisions. The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have. 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. But how can we as Asian leaders defend her when she doesnt give us anything? Perhaps its too much for Ms. Allison Collins to understand what she did was racist and put down all Asian American students, parents and teachers and unfairly stereotyped them and has made policy decisions against Asian Americans based on her hatred for all Asians. Asian-Americans like this dont show up to protests when unarmed Black folks get shot dead. We are finally in a climate where more of the mainstream is actually (supposedly) listening to Black voices. Its the magical idea that one can achieve success simply by personal effort unassisted by anyone or anything else. been blessed with the opportunities afforded me to attain the american dream. And, what I cant dismiss is she is likely a factor in why we are losing our first Black superintendent, as well as our Black vice principal, and our Latinx vice principal. 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. During a week-long stint at Funochio's in Atlanta, the band was discovered by the renown Al Kooper. She is no longer a private citizen but a public official. Learn to live with empathy and compassion. Eliot called: Objective Correlative which is the writers tool in choosing the most accurate word or phrase to capture a person, place or thing or event . Who makes the plaid blue coat Jesse stone wears in Sea Change? Parents are not looking for a private school education paid for by taxpayers. The Asian cultural commitment to education predates US History by a millenia or two. She is a disgraceful RACIST, and she needs to go. This Censorship/cancel/Culture weakens a language in my opinion which is generally speaking, my favorite. White supremacy and whiteness is the ideology which defines who is white who supports whiteness. 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. Everyone can easily be for funding parks and playgrounds and kiddies and sea walls. WebAllen Collins - Biography. 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. Racism coming from the SJWs is complicated and requires context. These are the new standards she and the others have set; time to live by them. A house negro enjoys all the privileges of working in the masters house and would do anything to keep their position. This is all written in love to achieve a more equitable and fair SFUSD. What are Allen Collins childrens name and ages? We will zap comments that fail to adhere to these short and very easy-to-follow rules. However the band's 1981 follow-up effort stumbled in the marketplace despite being well-received critically. Lowell is a merit based entrance school-are you saying that kids of all races were not offered the SAME opportunities or are you saying Black and Brown students were purposely excluded?! Its the foundational values and morals (rather than entitlement, blame, and bringing standards down) instilled in these kids that propel them to 95% graduation rate from SFUSDnot White Supramacy values. Its also interesting that the defenders of the murals at Washington High are so insistent that they should stay because a slave-owner wasnt really a racist. He entered the hospital in September where he passed away on January 23, 1990. 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. You have to use the scientific method. Taking away rewards will hurt our GDP and our nation. WebThere are some familiar faces on this 1961 Ypsilanti High track team, Class A Regional titlist. These are the Collins supporters and I stand in solidarity with AAPI offended here, but will not speak for them as they are more than capable of expressing themselves. Imagine if this had been said by some white person. Her lawsuit is incredibly tone deaf. Having lived the past 20 years in the Hawaiian Islands gives me a different perspective than some. Skynyrd donated substantial amount of its 198788 concert tour proceeds to the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis while Collins came up with the Roll For Rock Wheelchair Events and Benefit Concerts in 1988. Times were very difficult since Allen's musical career barely brought in enough to support the Their ambitious new tour, just days underway, saw sellout crowds. Collins must resign! There would not be any opportunity for articles like this one analyzing context or motives. WebAccording to her Instagram, she says that someone named Les Collins is her father, NOT Allen Collins. Her youngest daughter really resembles Allen. What a disgraceful, offensive, and pathetic woman. You go, girl, Im an old english teacher and I support your use of our language. This is exactly backwards: the students are what make the schools elite!). This is a perfect final summary, unfortunately. Any valid point made is going to be torpedo by calling someone a bozo, that they need to read a book or dropping references to demonstrate being cultured in the Arts. People need to stop making generalizations about large groups of people based on their skin color or nationality. I have heard this from teachers (at other schools). I expected at least a few paragraphs at the level of scholarship my 9th grader is using in his English assignments. I must be obtuse, because I do not understand the double standard at play here. You know why they bury regular fans 6 deep but bury Dodgers fans 10 under? Girls choose right more than boys. But especially a school administrator. Eliminating 8th grade algebra was cruel. Not one peep. Kathy had a fatal haemorrhage during miscarriage of the couples third That wound wasn't just a "few stitches and call it done" kind of wound. For her, to pander and hope Even when Gary Rossington and Dale Krantz quit the Rossington Collins Band, Allen continued on forming the Allen Collins Band in 1983. If she had Id be open to restoration. On January 23, 1990, Collins succumbed to chronic pneumonia and was interred in Jacksonville, Florida, beside his wife. This wont help equity at all). The Asian cop during the George Floyd murder said NOTHING and did NOTHING to stop the murder from taking place, he is an accessory to MURDER, a MURDER to a man of color, need it say more. Solidarity is complex, difficult to achieve, and easily broken. So when someone uses the term House N*****, instead of getting offended like an over-entitled douche (aka model minority), you ask, why would she say that about Asian people? what exactly is the context behind that? whats the history behind that? Then go look it up, read some books and learn something new to which you can contribute back to the community. They felt like theatre and politics. Its not always about racism. Totally agree with Steve. Set aside the incendiary last tweet and the question of whether or not she was channeling Malcolm X for a moment. It was a lie. Do not denigrate the curiosity, dedication, assiduous work ethic, talent of these Lowell students. 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. Viewing this story from New York is interesting. The various public board meetings where Allison Colins has continued to single out Asians by citing time, over and over again, that there are too many Asians at Lowell and calling everyone, including Asians, on the meeting who opposed removing merit admissions racist. There are a bunch of them so feel free to dig through those meetings here: https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/board-education/board-education-meetings/2021-board-education-meeting-documents-archive. Overwritten. This hate from her is especially obvious on her attacks on Lowell. A community forum, pass the mic around, have Ms. Collins sit with those she hurt and be part of the solution. Many jobs are obtained through social networking, something non-Hispanic white people of considerable wealth engage in. That being said, when running for office, isnt purging ones social media pro forma? She called everyone not agreeing with her RACISTS! So even those who feel secure in their whiteness may not be so secure once the definition is sharpened and you get excluded. She doesnt want black kids to sacrifice and read summers and learn. asian american legal refugee, She should resign. Nothing was taken out of context. Its very true that there are Asians from many different backgrounds and skin tones who also dont think in a monolithic way. Do you see that? thank you, MER, for your heartfelt, educated and eloquent 3/25 post. She should be teaching kids nonwhite immigrants from 70 nations and 30 African Nation out-earn whites within a generation. The drugs led to the car accident. Everyone needs to go through some type of adversity to succeed. MERs commentary (March 25, 2021 at 4:37 am) is spot on. The fallacy of your argument is that you believe that capitalism can be reformed. I dont think you would agree either. They are proving Collinss point about anti-black biases with an absolutely amazing lack of self-awareness. And your continued success requires others to think highly of you. If you really want equality, never, ever use private school, period. Ahhh, Earth is a great place to be a writer of my ilk. Isnt that the point? By the way, growing up, I have been called racial slurs by Caucasians, Latinos, Middle Easterns, other Asians, and yes, even African Americans? Do we agree her lawsuit is offensive and completely self-defeating? 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? Do you think people went-oh theyre black(NEXT) like that? 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. One woman should not stand in the way of solidarity, and Alison Collins needs to recognize that and resign. Unfortunately, I doubt anyone is really going to take him and his friends seriously. Nobody is coming out of this looking good. Collins, forgetting to mute said to another board member, I am listening to a bunch of racists. supremacy? Acknowledge and change, not discriminate and unapologetic. We rely on you, our readers, to fund our journalism. Her main mistake is that she cant get over her own ego. Besides that theres plenty of just overtly racist stuff that Yap and others here have said too, the bad faith is made obvious by the fact that **none of them are willing to engage with the idea that started this whole thing**: that there might be a grain of truth in Collinss point that anti-black attitudes among some Asian-Americans might be A Thing. The accomplished AAPI is a doctor. It was interrupted when white supremacists imprisoned them in the Topaz, Utah concentration camp. 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. Tell me: what is the goal here by going down this path of convincing them to be less successful? 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. The goal of these people like Collins and Lopez is to destroy what America stands for. Changing Lowell this much ruined it. It makes you question if public school will teach your kids to learn to write or to think critically? The racist views against ALL Asian students, parents, and teachers (yes, she said that), has no role in policy making roles for the SFUSD. Unless it applies to her. On October 20, 1977, the Skynyrd plane crashed into a forest in Mississippi killing three band members, including Van Zant. Webthe Secret life of Wilkie,. Many of my Asian-American friends and family are worried about going out, even after COVID. There is no nuance or context that excuses calling any group of people hateful slurs. Organize, control, distribute and measure all of your digital content. The goal should be to convince African Americans to view their journey like immigrants and focus on personal choices and behavior, based on this fact, because America is fair. Yet NO ISSUES for the asian man; he was not detained for hours, stereotyped, NOTHING. Remove her from the board. We heard her over and over again Too Many Asians! WebCatherine is the daughter of Burton E. Collins and Gloria Luckenbach. Ronnie Van Zant, Bob Burns, and Gary Rossington decided to form a band in 1964. These tweets do not read well. They want to destroy their opposition in every way. 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 . you are not grandiose as you claim. 4. 1. You can try to spin it all you want, but thats the obvious conclusion. Get study hours equal and income will follow. We should hold up any group who studies hard and get others to be more like them, including Nigerian Americans. If there's one band that inspired the overused, mildly annoying tradition of yelling "Free Bird" at the encore of random concerts, it's Lynyrd Skynyrd. I dont think youd find many Asian American families who would choose A. You are trying to suppress the vulnerable Asian American community from speaking out against the racist Collins. This shows a really problematic way of thinking about Asians. Complaints have been filed on this discrimination that is UNFAIR hiring and DISCRIMINATION against people of color. According to the groups website, they have 19,000 registered Chinese members in 41 states across the country. Nigerian Americans, and most African immigrants, are less lazy than whites in school and parenting. Cookie Notice There are more than 5,300 universities and colleges in the United States. Shame on this racist sham Allison Collins! She was a sweet lady with lots of friends & a southern accent. Actions speak louder than words. Did it matter then and does it matter now, that these two elected officials could overlook Zhaos transphobic remarks? 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. Joe was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Please dont buy into the idea that this is a one-time error in judgement. 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.. Privacy Policy. It will require quite a bit of humility. They sacrificed stress pressuring their kids to go the extra mile to ensure they dont get any Bs and study for tests in the summer. I believe Ms. Collins would emerge transformed and we would be an example of an alternative to Youre fired! In November 22 we can all decide the next chapter, so if removal is the answer, it will have its day. Thats exactly what the racist Allison Collins did. This has awoken the beast and any attempt to run her off the job is going to make things worse. Wow those murals from George Washington high school in the linked article are like something out of the show Parks and Recreation. Why dont you put her tweets in context by referencing the Malcolm X quote she was obviously referring to? He also received lessons from his stepmother, Leila Collins. And it didnt have to be this way. lololololololol i only have a Ph.D in Ethnic Studies ***for the purposes of having a tidy and illustrative hypothetical***, you dimwitted schmucko. Those who did speak with Collins told me the calls were one-sided and defensive and they were confused why they had to reach out to Collins and not vice-versa. if D students get in. 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. Musical career Allen Collins joined Skynyrd in Jacksonville, Florida just two weeks after Ronnie 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. and family. 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