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SF School Council member accused Asians of using ‘white supremacy’ to ‘make progress’
A San Francisco School Council member referred to Asian Americans as “house n **** r[s]”In a 2016 tweet topic, in a comment highlighted by the organizer of a movement to remember it. Alison Collins, who serves as vice president on the school board, posted a lengthy topic on Twitter in December 2016, in which she explained her intention to “combat anti-black racism in the Asian community in [sic] my daughters are mainly asian[erican] Collins accused “many Asian American Ts, Ss and Ps” – teachers, students and parents – of promoting “the ‘model minority’ BS” and of using “white supremacist thinking to assimilate and ‘progress'”. on my FB timeline with former HS colleagues. His TLs are full of white and Asian people. No #BlackLivesMatter recognition exists, “she said, before describing how her daughter experimented with Asian American boys teasing a Latin colleague. “She spoke when none of the other employees did,” recalls Collins. “The after-school counselor was Asian.: /” She then demanded to know “[w]here are the vocal Asians speaking against Trump? “” Do Asian Americans not know that they are also on his list? ” Collins continued. “Do they think they will not be deported? profiled? beaten? Being a n **** r home is still being a **** r. You are still considered “the help”. The whole topic was highlighted by a group led by parents entitled “Recall SF School Board”. 30 REASONS TO REMEMBER THE SF SCHOOL BOARD 19. Commissioner Collins seems biased against Asian Americanshttps: //t.co/lX2Q0IhFyw pic.twitter.com/LyAe6gty13 – Recall SF School Board (@recallsfboe) March 19, 2021 In a In a subsequent press release, the organization classified the tweets as “unacceptable for any elected official at the school, but especially in a school district where more than a third of the children are Asian”. Siva Raj, one of the group’s two organizers, told National Review that Collins’ comments shed additional light on the board’s decision to eliminate merit-based admission at Lowell High School – the best school in the district – and replace it with a lottery system. “The district has about 30-34% and Asian-American, Lowell, about 55% – Asian-American children tend to do better on merit-based admission scores,” he explained. “Since the start of the recall campaign, one of the things that we have tried to understand and clarify is that this whole decision was made with the best intention. . . and now we can understand why: there seems to be a deep-seated prejudice against the Asian American community. “” It is unacceptable that our elected leader, any elected leader, has a high degree of personal animosity towards any ethnic minority in this country, “he continued. “Much less anyone on our school board, who makes daily decisions about the safety and well-being of all our children. I would expect her to be absolutely, completely 100% impartial. ”Collins, who joined the San Francisco school board in 2018, has personal ties to the public education system, which“ helped his mother out of poverty and helped his father become one of the first black teachers at UCLA ”, according to your biography. On his personal website, Collins notes a number of initiatives he participated in to help Chinese-speaking students and their families. She told National Review that “I will not comment on social media posts from five years ago”, adding that “it broke my heart to see the escalation of violence against my Asian American brothers, sisters and brothers”. “What has been even more worrying is seeing how the media often erases the true nature of the problem,” she continued. “Watching hate crimes labeled ‘sex addiction’ and watching videos of police and paramedics responding to the needs of perpetrators of violence while neglecting the needs of the people they target. It is not just about one or two incidents circulating in the news cycle – it is a widespread culture. One that we all must collectively name and dismantle. ”In explaining the decision to change admission standards at Lowell, which was also a school that was being considered for a name change by the school board, Collins explained in a February blog post that he was a” key contributor “to” problems with racist abuse and discrimination at school, “and referred to the infamous anti-racist proponent Ibram X. Kendi.” People who argue that changes in admission policies are unfair are also uninformed about the relationship between test-based admissions and the racist discrimination that educators have been discussing for decades, “she explained.” In fact, the resolution cites the testimony that Ibram X. Kendi prepared in support of the Boston School Committees’ decision to eliminate test scores standardized admissions to Boston selective enrollment “exam schools.” After a January “anti-racism training” in Lowell was hacked and flooded with racist slander and ima pornographic images, Collins and the school board acted to make the admission change permanent. Raj acknowledged the concerns, but said the response was aimed at “scoring political points”. “There have been incidents of bullying, racism, sexual harassment, all kinds of things that have happened to the school district over the years that have not really been addressed, that have not really been addressed directly,” he said. “People have been using them to score political points instead of actually addressing the root causes of all these incidents.” Editor’s note: This article has been updated with a comment from Collins.