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SF school board member accuses Asians of using ‘White Supremacy’ to ‘get ahead’
A member of the San Francisco School Board referred to Asian Americans as’ home n **** r[s]In a tweet from 2016, in a remark highlighted by the organizer of a movement to recall her. Alison Collins, who serves as Vice President of the School Board, published a lengthy Twitter thread in December 2016 explaining her intention to “combat anti-black racism in the Asian community against [sic] my daughters’ mostly Asian Am[erican] Collins accuses “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’ advance ‘. ‘ “See it in my FB timeline with former HS peers. Their TLs are full of whites and Asians. No recognition exists #BlackLivesMatter,” she said before describing how her daughter experienced Asian American boys who “She spoke when none of the other staff did it,” Collins recalls. “The aftercare counselor was Asian. /” She demanded to know.[w]here the vocal Asians are talking against Trump? “” Do not Asian Americans know they’re on his list too? ” Collins continued. ‘Do they think they will not be deported? profiled? hit? Home be n **** r is still a **** r. You are still considered ‘the help’. The entire thread was highlighted by a parent guidance group titled “Recall SF School Board.” 30 REASONS TO RECALL THE SF SCHOOL BOARD 19. Commissioner Collins seems biased against Asian Americans, calling the organization the tweets ‘unacceptable to any elected school official, but especially in a school district where more than a third of children are Asians.’ 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 admission to earnings at Lowell High School – the best high school in the district – and to be replaced by a lottery system. “The district is about 30-34 percent and the Asian American, Lowell is about 55 percent. Asian American children tend to earn better based on earnings permissions,” he explained. ‘Since the recall campaign started, one of the things we’re trying to understand and make clear is that the whole decision was made with the best of intentions. . . and now we can understand why: there seem to be deep-seated prejudices against the Asian American community. “It is unacceptable that our elected leader, any elected leader, has such a great deal of personal hostility towards any ethnic minority in this country,” he continued. “Let alone another person who is 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 100 percent unbiased. Collins, who joined the San Francisco School Board in 2018, has personal ties to the public school system, which helped her mother rise from poverty and help her father become one of the first blacks. to become professors at UCLA ‘, according to her bio. On her personal website, Collins notes on a number of initiatives she has participated in to help Chinese-speaking students and their families. She told National Review: ‘I’m not going to comment on social media reports from five years ago,’ adding that she ‘was saddened by the escalating violence against my Asian American brothers and sisters and siblings. ‘ “What was even more disturbing was seeing the ways in which the media erased the true nature of the problem,” she continued. “To see how hate crimes are termed ‘sex addiction’, and to see videos of the police and EMTs responding to the needs of violent criminals while looking out for the needs of the people they are targeting, it says. It’s not just about one or two incidents spreading in the news cycle – it’s an ongoing culture. One that we all need to name and break down. ‘In the decision to change the admission standards at Lowell, which is also being considered by the school board for a name change, Collins explained in a February blog post that it was an’ important contributor ‘to’ the problems of racist abuse ‘. . and discrimination at school, ”referring to the infamous anti-racist proponent Ibram X. Kendi. “People who argue that changes to admissions policies are also not informed about the link between test-based admissions policies and educators about racist discrimination have been discussing them for decades,” she explained. ‘In fact, the resolution calls the evidence that Ibram X. Kendi prepared in support of the Boston Schools’ Committee’s decision to eliminate standardized test scores from admission to Boston’s selective enrollment ‘exam schools’. After an “anti-racism training” in Lowell was hacked in January and flooded with racist insults and pornographic images, Collins and the school board made the admission shift 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 sorts of things that have happened over the years with the school district that have not been really addressed, that have not really been addressed directly,” he said. “People use it to score political points rather than address the causes of all these incidents.” Editor’s Comment: This article was updated with a comment from Collins.