March 20, 2021

USA: Marxist Dem Board of Education Commissioner For The San Francisco Unified School District Says Asian Americans “Use White Supremacist Thinking." She Uses N-word To Refer To Asian Americans.

San Francisco Chronicle
written by Jill Tucker 
Saturday March 19, 2021

A civil rights group founder, political leaders, parents and alumni called Friday for a San Francisco school board member to resign after critics highlighted a series of racist tweets she posted in 2016 about Asian Americans, who have been targeted in a recent surge of violent acts in the Bay Area and across the country. On Friday night, a school board member also joined the calls for her colleague to step down.

Board Vice President Alison Collins, elected in 2018, said in a thread of tweets on Dec. 4, 2016, that Asian Americans had used “white supremacist thinking to assimilate and ‘get ahead.’” Collins explained in the thread that she was seeking to “combat anti-black racism in the Asian community” and “at my daughters’ mostly Asian Am school.”
Later in the thread, Collins singled out Asian Americans in recounting an incident she said had occurred in the past. She wrote that her “mixed-race/Black daughter heard boys teasing a Latino about ‘Trump, Mexicans and the KKK.’ The boys were Asian-American. ... She spoke up when none of the other staff did. The after school counselor was Asian.”

School board member Jenny Lam called for Collins to resign from the board.

“I’m shocked, dismayed, personally hurt by the remarks about Asian American students, parents and teachers,” Lam said, adding the board makes decisions that affect tens of thousands of people and it’s critical to have leaders representing all students.

Lam said she spoke to Collins on Friday.

“I asked, and I think it’s in the best interest of the school district and leadership for her to step down from the Board of Education,” Lam said.

A group of parents mounting a recall effort against Collins, who is Black, as well as two other board members, uncovered the tweets and posted them late Thursday.

Diane Yap, a San Francisco native and 2002 Lowell graduate, said her discovery of the tweets was distressing, given Collins’ use of a racial epithet and reinforcement of a stereotype that Asian Americans aren’t politically active enough.

“I don’t think this sort of rhetoric is acceptable from any elected officials, especially given today’s climate and the violent attacks that are happening against Asians now,” she said.

Yap called on Collins to step down.

Based on the tweets, the Lowell Black Student Union removed Collins as a panelist at a Women in Leadership event Thursday evening.

“The Lowell Black Student Union stands with the Asian community and condemns all acts of anti-Asian hate,” organizers said in an Instagram post.

Mayor London Breed also strongly condemned the posts, but did not directly call for her resignation.

“All of our young people in our schools need to feel respected and supported, and you simply can’t use words like that,” she said in a statement. “Asian people in this country have long faced very real racism, including here in San Francisco, and you can’t just broad brush their experience in a way that is so harmful and offensive.

“Any elected official serving in our schools needs to recognize that, or they shouldn’t be representing our kids.”

One of the recall organizers, Siva Raj, said he shared the posts because he believes the sentiments are not acceptable, especially by someone running a school system where a third of the 52,000 students are Asian American.

It was a “naked display of prejudice and bias to the Asian community,” said Raj, whose two children attend district schools. “To cast an entire group of people as racist or having animosity, or being judgmental about them for wanting their children to have a good education or life, I find that disturbing, coming from an educator.”

The recall effort against Collins, as well as board President Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga, is being driven by parents who are upset about the ongoing closure of district schools amid the pandemic, the board’s move to change the names of 44 schools, and the vote to end merit-based admissions to Lowell High School, where the enrollment is predominantly Asian American.

Collins declined to address the social media posts when contacted by The Chronicle.

“I’m not going to comment on social media posts from five years ago. I’ve been heartbroken seeing the escalating violence against my Asian-American brothers, sisters and siblings,” she said in a text message sent Friday to The Chronicle. “What has been even more upsetting is seeing the ways that the media often erase the true nature of the problem.”

In a reference to this week’s mass shooting in Georgia, Collins said Friday, “Seeing hate crimes labeled ‘sex addiction,’ and seeing videos of police and EMTs responding to the needs of perpetrators of violence while overlooking the needs of the people they target is telling. This isn’t just about one or two incidents circulating in the news cycle— it’s a pervasive culture. One we must all collectively name and dismantle.”

In a longer statement posted Friday on Facebook, Collins said: “One of the most harmful stereotypes of the Asian-American community is that it is monolithic. And that as members of the “model-minority” Asian-Americans are silent. While I continue to push for safe schools for all students and families, and curriculum that elevates and celebrated Asian-American culture and contributions, I will also dedicate my social media feeds to lifting up voices within the Asian-American community.”

As of Friday afternoon, Collins had not removed the posts from her Twitter timeline and declined to say if she would.

“You have my comment,” she said.

The other four school board members, Superintendent Vince Matthews and four supervisors contacted by The Chronicle did not respond to requests for comment.

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The Blaze
written by Breck Dumas
Friday March 19, 2021

The vice president of the San Francisco School Board came under increasing fire this week, after a campaign to have her removed from office revealed social media posts from 2016 where she made several racist comments against Asian Americans.

Alison Collins went on a lengthy tirade arguing — among other things — that many Asian Americans use "white supremacist thinking" to "get ahead," and called Asian Americans who did not speak out against then-President Donald Trump as "house" N-words.

What are the details?

A campaign led by San Francisco parents to recall members of the school board was initially launched over frustrations over the panel's refusal to allow schools to reopen.

Calls for Collins and others to be removed from office increased after the board voted 5-2 last month to change the admissions policy at the city's prestigious Lowell High School from merit-based to a lottery system, citing "pervasive systemic racism," KPIX-TV reported.

Then on Thursday, the "Recall SF School Board" campaign released the numerous anti-Asian tweets from Collins, where she complained to her followers that "Many Asian [Students] and [Teachers] I know won't engage in critical race convos unless they see how they are impacted by white supremacy."

"I grew up in mostly Asian [American] schools and know this experience all to (sic) well. Many Asian Am. believe they benefit from the 'model minority' BS," she continued. "In fact many Asian Americans [Teachers], [Students], and [Parents] actively promote these myths. They use white supremacist thinking to assimilate and 'get ahead.'"

She added, "Talk to many [Lowell High School] parents and you will hear praise of tiger Moms and disparagement of Black/Brown 'culture.'"

Collins went on to ask, "Where are the vocal Asians speaking up against Trump? Don't Asian Americans know they are on his list as well? Do they think they won't be deported? beaten? Being a house n****r is still being a n****r. You're still considered 'the help.'"

In a follow-up press release, the Recall SF School Board campaign wrote that Collins' tweets "would be unacceptable for any elected official, but especially so in a school district where over a third of the children are Asian."

The group also suggested the decision to change Lowell High School's merit based admission system "was prejudiced by the same animosity" shown in the tweets, noting that "Asian Americans account for over 50% of Lowell's students and are most likely to lose ground in this shift to a lottery system."

When reached for comment, Collins told National Review, "I'm not going to comment on social media posts from five years ago," adding that she has "been heartbroken seeing the escalating violence against my Asian-American brothers, sisters and siblings."

She went on to say:
"What has been even more upsetting is seeing the ways that the media often erase the true nature of the problem. Seeing hate crimes labeled 'sex addiction', and seeing videos of police and EMTs responding to the needs of perpetrators of violence while overlooking the needs of the people they target is telling. This isn't just about one or two incidents circulating in the news cycle—it's a pervasive culture. One we must all collectively name and dismantle."

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