They dont want to have that conversation because lots of the people making the loudest stink about Collins, in fact, harbor those very same attitudes! There are more than 5,300 universities and colleges in the United States. If you participate in one of the public schools board meetings, you will know she gave no one a chance. No. People need to stop making generalizations about large groups of people based on their skin color or nationality. (Id imagine Asians in the US get more consideration from power than a Black, brown or white US person would get in Han China.). Commissioner Jenny Lam has spoken up in support if students best interests and us aligned with you on these issues. He got his first Silvertone guitar and amplifier from his mother and started playing the guitar at age 12. 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. The strange and terrible saga of Alison Collins and her ill Diligent is to stay married even if it hurts because thats what hard-working parents do, put their children ahead of themselves and teach kids to read. The idea is Asian Americans can never actually get ahead, and should join her in a battle to overthrow Americas culture, which she views as hateful. Allen's mother, Eva remembers her son as full of energy and enthusiasm -- even before Allen could walk he moved constantly. Our schools need to be an opportunity for all races and ethnicities to succeed. WAKE UP everyone. Are they blinded by their righteousness that they cant read the room at all? Times were very difficult since Allen's musical career barely brought in enough to support the After several years of practicing, performing and personnel changes, Skynyrd, like any decent group of fledgling rock stars, started gigging the notorious one-nighters. Allen used the Tribute tour to go on stage and let his fans know the reason why he couldn't play with Skynyrd -- a powerful, sobering message few fans will forget. 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. For whatever its worth, Id bet the NYTimes would not have run its piece on the SF school board yesterday were it not for the reporting here. As Americans, we are so wholly UNAWARE of the true history of this nation and the very purposeful barriers put in place to keep Black Americans down. They are an emotion-infused plea to step UP. Youre wrong, Nigerians prove it. Our problems will never be solved by the white man.. Some sjws have gotten too comfortable with anti-asian racism. Whats even more sickening is that in Atlanta the recent shooting and at the scene of the shooting, a Latino male named Mario Gonzalez who is Mexican was stereotyped, detained and handcuffed by Atlanta police for hours. How does she draw this conclusion? I also want to add to Tiffany Cs comment that Colins was also unapologetic today as well. This is exactly backwards: the students are what make the schools elite!). One woman should not stand in the way of solidarity, and Alison Collins needs to recognize that and resign. It reveals an inability to listen and a lack of judgment and empathy. This is not prestige based on skimming. 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. As refugees and displaced persons, we have certainly beat the odds but not everyone prospers. I personally find it harmful to teach children that working hard and persevering are bad things. Acknowledge the vast majority of violence against Asians in San Francisco and Oakland has come from the African American minority, and stop blaming Trump voters for all anti-Asian violence. Blacks have every opportunity to prove as an individual they want to learn by sacrificing those hours. By Alison Collins standards, historical context doesnt matter. Asians were also brought to do break and life threatening work to build railroads and many other essentially infresucture and also latinx and carribian people asked to labor for essential foods yet these task are not considered hard work and study . Are we reverting back to segregation? Together. Thanks for the great article. vote to remove the merit-based entrance system at Lowell High School. Absent some feel-good bond measures, its hard to recall a municipal shield wall quite this tight. Asians need to understand that Collins is not the enemy, She is a friend and ally who pointed out the truth to us. 1. Grow your brand authentically by sharing brand content with the internets creators. But it is the argument. Good person vs bad person. Really!! 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. 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. Learn more about us. 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. On January 23, 1990, Collins succumbed to chronic pneumonia and was interred in Jacksonville, Florida, beside his wife. San Francisco is such a beautiful and diverse city. Namely that ones race gender and sexuality only counted if they were in ideological lockstep. When minority communities dont support one another, white supremacy THRIVES. 3. Gary Rossington and Allen Collins had performed at a few special jams, and slowly began planning a new band. Adams ruins everything. The opportunistic targeting of Commissioner Collins distracts from the national conversation around addressing Anti-API and Anti-Black hate. 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. 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. Heres how racist white people use the model minority to deny racism.. Model Minority Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks Why put another race down? 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 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. So lets just say its not racelets just say she said there are too many kids that like toasted sandwiches at this school. 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. My parents were the help.. Take that sht to your therapists couch; this discussion isnt about the merits of various CRT ideas. Her tweets, in my opinion, are not fighting words toward Asian Americans. But i was a social worker and prior educator with spanish language instruction for middle grade. Thats because whiteness is an ever evolving construct that benefits those who are in power and are free to define whiteness as they see fit. 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. Sure, if you consider toddler-level illogic and implicitly racist theories scholarship, then, yes, our best and brightest are on the case. Collins, who was a private citizen in 2016, is entitled to think what she thinks and write what she writes. To add insult to injury she states that she knows Asian culture because her kids went to an Asian school. Bassist Larry Junstrom also joined in. Or is this move just to place more pressure on Collins to resign? 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. The problem with her Tweets is that we are now in 2021, not 2016. So @blinkywhat is holding them back? After signing a record deal with MCA subsidiary Sounds of the South, Skynyrd entered the studio with Kooper producing. Required fields are marked *, {{#message}}{{{message}}}{{/message}}{{^message}}Your submission failed. Your fellow antiracists are desperate not to have to call you out. 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. Obama got elected by saying any man who abandons his kids and doesnt marry the pregnant mother of his kids and try to be the best dad he can be and help teach his kids is a lowlife, and you can never be so poor you can watch TV with your kids but cant possibly study. Half of the people ranting here are doing so because they have no familiarity with the world of scholarship about race and no willingness to try to understand it, and the other half (like the one youre responding to) are racist wingnuts whove clicked over directly from the Breitbart/NYPost comments section purely for the purpose of posting rambling unreadable screeds about how critical race theory is the devil. I mean this high school is in the company of expensive, independent high schools. I am 100% ready to stand together with black activists. Has Collins made one peep about that private school at taxpayers expense? Theres no such thing as white people. People dont want to just win an argument. I received a class A education throughout my life yet I was in the dark on much of it until this past year. And advocating for policies that belittle the black community under the faulty assumption that they cannot achieve the same results as the rest of us. Allen was hooked. 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. Her tweets, no matter what she actually meant, would seem to fit perfectly in the criteria of those 44. Asians are model minorities which is a euphemism for house negro. I love how the majority of comments on this story prove Collins point in the first placethat anti-blackness is on full display in the San Francisco public school system. That was the prophet, Samuel giving marching orders to Israels first king, Saul. Wow those murals from George Washington high school in the linked article are like something out of the show Parks and Recreation. after my name. 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. Mission Local produces enterprise-reporting on SFs most critical issues: police reform, corruption, public health, housing and homelessness. And according to Wikipedia, L-W still has shop classes, unlike Lowell. What is the Denouement of the story a day in the country? Your grandstanding masks a contempt for the unwashed masses. Lowing education standards not only does nothing to stop racism. There is no white supremist mentality here just hard work! Well, except for Dodgers fans, of course. They are proving Collinss point about anti-black biases with an absolutely amazing lack of self-awareness. And the success of Africans and Asians proves whites arent racist. I have heard this from teachers (at other schools). She called it an incident. Isnt that the point? 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. If there are any that have tried to stand up against the majority on these issues, let me know. Because, deep down, Dodgers fans are good people. Learn from them. asian american legal refugee, Collins was driven further into devastation and substance abuse. He was a composer, known for Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), Straw Dogs (2011) and Speed Racer Have folks forgotten the racist and stereotypical mural Ellen Lee Zhou put up in SF of Mayor London Breed. We will zap comments that fail to adhere to these short and very easy-to-follow rules. Probably because it was one of the songs they're best known for. Well played. Again, I have gone to SFUSD schools growing up in SF, my kids were also enrolled in under-privileged area schools in SF where more than 75% of children are under privileged. We should hold up any group who studies hard and get others to be more like them, including Nigerian Americans. The band combined a signature rock sound with a country twang and produced singles that have inspired numerous covers. Her main mistake is that she cant get over her own ego. Enjoying the misfortune of others seems to cut across many barriers, including intelligence. We all got played here, one tells me. You would and you should see my motives as being totally racist. In the Lynyrd Skynyrd biographyWhiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars: The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd, author Mark Ribowsky illustrates that Collins suffered from terrible survivor's guilt and PTSD that lead to severe nightmares. 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. He resides in the Excelsior with his wife and three (!) Showed up at a Gonzalez office monthly party and told me I should write less. 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. 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. But her comments are completely representative of her lifes work, which has been to fight for and implement policies which are damaging to and unfair to Asians. Dont ignore how prejudice toward Black people from anyone in the Asian community furthers white supremacy! have a better life. Collins and Ronnie co-wrote several hit songs for Skynyrd including Gimme Three Steps (1973), Free Bird (1974) and That Smell (1977). This distinction by ethnicity is bizarre to me. 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. You are spreading lies. As a Mom of Asian kids in the school system I can no longer trust Collins decisions on their behalf. When I saw the Google sheet with Wikipedia sources and not much explanation, I was horrified. Privacy Policy. 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? Making Lowell a lottery school, eliminating 8th grade algebra and banning willful defiance suspensions, and eliminating honors, just to name a few. San Francisco should pay tutors for every poor kid, 3 hours a week, and make it mandatory for anyone living in public housing in SF. They call the achievement gap the opportunity gap. Jesus; black people are not keeping you down; fuck. 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. In this case Commissioner Molina also made his voice heard in asking Collins to resign. Apologizing means you acknowledge how your words are perceived as hurtful to others. She should resign. Rather, parents want to have their children rewarded for excelling in school. If you stay married even if not getting along, dedicate yourself to your kids, study 10,000 hours more than average, eat well, avoid drugs, marry before kids, do workbooks and flashcards and long hours of reading and grammar study, the content of your character is good, no matter your race. Collins response may have been an even greater disaster. Is Allison Collins from The Allison Collins Band Allen Collins daughter? Because even her ideological allies see where this could go: This could be the French Laundry moment for the nascent recall attempt of Collins and fellow commissioners Faauuga Moliga and Gabriela Lpez. 1802 in TN. That should be mandatory as an educator. Im not an expert, Latina, 1st gen, mestiza, grew up poor monolingual household, single parent, for whatever thats worth. Has Zhou been forced to resign from any city position or banned from any future political runnings, I think not. The Stereotype Threat is when you are stereotyped, you end up becoming that stereotype. Long considered one of rock's premier guitarists, Allen Collins served as heart to Ronnie VanZant's soul in Lynyrd Skynyrd. What is A person who sells flower is called? Is that fair?? They have also lived in Oakley, CA and Yorktown, IN. The drugs led to the car accident. And your continued success requires others to think highly of you. Its not racist to note that Asian kids study more. But how ironic it is that she sends her kids to a merit based entrance school. Are you now OK to go ahead with cancelling Allison Collins? And when. So the masters responsibility for the spreading the disease is all but lost in the melee between the field negros and house negro. Collins has been judged guilty of using currently non-PC correlatives in her vernacular. affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, and I must be obtuse, because I do not understand the double standard at play here. Here, everyone is against Collins. Born In: Jacksonville, Florida, United States, place of death: Jacksonville, Florida, United States, See the events in life of Allen Collins in Chronological Order. For at least half of the anti-Collins crusaders (including Diane Yap, who surfaced these old tweets in the first place), it was never about a high-minded adherence to the principle of anti-racism, it was about their own gross tribalism and nothing more. This is neither good nor pleasant company for Collins to find herself in. Allen Collins married Kathy John in 1970. i am proud to be an advocate for children, pediatrician, educator. I think were good here. She has no curiosity as to why Asian Americans have 30% higher income than whites, more wealth, over 50% more income after a generation, 1/7th the white murder rate, under 1/7th the white homeless rate, under half the white rate of imprisonment, lower suicide rates, longer lifespans, lower divorce rates and other markers of success based on personal choice. Even explaining this, she was called racist. Collins and his new band were refreshed and ready to go on their debut tour, so they hit the road. 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. She wants them to hate whites, and Asians, as she hates Asians. Respect yourself, courtesy of the Staple Singers, white supremacy, what white Millions of high-quality images, video, and music options are waiting for you. America is a great nation most want to move to and a land of opportunity in the present. Meritocracy has roots at least as far back as Confucius before they were even deeply exposed to European culture. She only goes after the asian-heavy school. 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. Now its on to anti-Asian sentiment, ignoring the facts that Asian students on average put the most hours into study. Skynyrd received international recognition for popularizing Southern rock genre during the 1970s. We continue to grieve even as we support Commissioner Collins, and we call on all San Francisco leaders to focus on healing and deepening efforts to address systemic racism in our schools. 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. Her main mistake was in not realizing that her audience was ignorant and racist., ^ a true masterclass in how to win friends and influence people. 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. However, there has always been controversy surrounding merit-based admissions in that school. i have an M.D. Lynyrd Skynyrd had met a sudden, tragic end. We know exactly why Lowell and not SOTA. It is racism, it is inflammatory, and it is not appropriate for someone responsible for children she is clearly racist towards. The others stood in solidarity with Collins Anns these ideologies that do not serve out students or our city. No, she shouldnt have to walk you through anything. 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