Complaints have been filed on this discrimination that is UNFAIR hiring and DISCRIMINATION against people of color. Think of this as a wake-up call. Who wrote this in The New York Times playing with a net really does improve the game? Bassist Larry Junstrom also joined in. Youre suggesting that these terms have universal definitions that are widely accepted by scholars. Im saying that the scholars defining this field arent actually scholars, and ipso facto, neither you nor anyone else can say that weve defined any of these terms in a way that has been accepted universally. But to lump us all into the same group as some teenagers who made fun of some kid in her daughters school? Who is using White Supremacy to assimilate and get ahead now? Lowell gave a reward for hard work. That wound wasn't just a "few stitches and call it done" kind of wound. Alison Collins wrote those tweets before she was on the school board, when her main job was activism. But at the same time, the house negro status is a precarious one subject to the masters whims. Maybe guardians that had to work a lot and couldnt help with school work or didnt have the skills to help? Can you provide more information about what you a referring to? WebMini Bio (1) Lily Jane Collins was born in Guildford, Surrey, England. It just became another school taken down by woke progressives. Its the magical idea that one can achieve success simply by personal effort unassisted by anyone or anything else. Intuitively, it sounds like it could be true. But I guess this isnt enough for Collins since they didnt speak up, or become activists, or confront their tormentors, and therefore remained niggers. Her presumable primary audience for these tweets was other activists, and this is reflected in the language she used; shes paraphrasing a Malcolm X speech and shes using terms that come directly from CRT and related schools of thought. She is basically implying an Asian American who owns a nice home and has a high income and net worth is still, because of a hidden white supremacist subculture no one discusses, beneath a white child in a rural setting with a single mother on fentanyl, meth or heroin, in public housing, on 3 generations of welfare, without a father, getting poor grades and facing a life of poverty. So youre telling me all the other elected officials who showed up at the press conference denouncing the death threats were duped because there werent really any death threats made against Collins and Lopez? We should hold up any group who studies hard and get others to be more like them, including Nigerian Americans. Even the *reporters* who have been giddily covering this controversy have no interest in engaging with any of this stuff as context for their stories that would help readers make sense of what Collins meant; the level of sophistication that the average Chron journalist has on this topic is OOOH that lady used the n-word, that automatically means she did a racism.. Dont step on the backs of Black people and look down on us while youre getting ahead. But I would not be offended if Collins commentary was directed toward many South Asians. This has awoken the beast and any attempt to run her off the job is going to make things worse. Do not assume that all these families if students are lucky enough to have families are leveraging privilege to just get a private school education on taxpayer dollars. I dont waste my time twittering, so I never saw an twitted death threats. As refugees and displaced persons, we have certainly beat the odds but not everyone prospers. This is like when Megan Markle went on Oprah and read the royal people for her own experience and interactions. The third result is Allison Collins age 20s in Muncie, IN in the Orchard Lawn neighborhood. Nope. Everyone can easily be for funding parks and playgrounds and kiddies and sea walls. These tweets continued, however. You live in your generational wealth bubble while putting minorities against each other. Over the four years Skynyrd recorded, the memories gradually turned into legends. Its time for Allison Collins to do the same. Respect yourself, courtesy of the Staple Singers, white supremacy, what white Realizing any singer would be faced with inevitable comparisons with Ronnie VanZant, Allen and Gary chose Dale Krantz, a gutsy, whiskey-voiced female backup singer from .38 Special. He resides in the Excelsior with his wife and three (!) I mean this high school is in the company of expensive, independent high schools. This is a moment we can seize and use to heal and grow. This saw him garnering several collectible and performance cars later in his life. Many jobs are obtained through social networking, something non-Hispanic white people of considerable wealth engage in. 1975's Torture Tour. You are spreading lies. I have friends of all races. Her main mistake was in not realizing that her audience was ignorant and racist.??? She called it an incident. Most black parents dont believe kids should make the tremendous sacrifices necessary to get into Lowell under the old system, do whatever it takes to get all As, say no to fun, to church, to TV, to family time, to friend time, to video games, to sports, to social media, to get better grades. I close with the immortal words of Joseph Hellers Chief White Half-Oat: Prejudice is a terrible thing, Yossarian., To treat myself, a full-blooded American Indian like some nigger or kike or wop.. Also maybe the whole school board should go. It assumes the worst of whites, morally, and considers Asians to be suckers, manipulated by whites. The SAT/ACT does not predict college success per se for someone attending the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. The term house n#@ro goes back to the days when the slaves that worked inside the home were not as opposed to slavery because they worked inside with White ppl. SMH. As a third generation Korean-American born in Michigan, I understand that there is context behind statements like these, like the Malcolm X parable that Jim posted above. 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. Everyone takes the same test to get into Lowell. Big yikes. Apparently now we have to be careful with everything we say bc now, everything is racist as intent no longer matters, unless youre Black apparently, then nuance does matter according to Collins defenders here. Parents want kids to excel. It made it hard to get into. Absolutely not. Rather, what I am *not* sure of is that Lowell students would not do equally well for themselves in a different system in which Lowell did not exist. If you want more diversity at Lowell, you should focus on the elementary schools to make sure all kids get the same opportunities and levels of education. Wrong, beneath her, and shes paying now. Driving near his home in Jacksonville, Allen crashed his car in an accident which killed his girlfriend and left him permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Both he and his girlfriend were airlifted to the hospital. If an Asian person internalizes the model minority stereotypes, they will have proven to the real whites in charge they are worthy. No, we dont. What about vice versa? Wonder if youd be as reasonable in trying to defend a Conservative with comments a lot more ambiguous to interpretation as what Collins said? And yet, Collins is digging in her heels, completely convinced that Asians are the evil ones for simply living and wanting to improve their lives. Doctor, I dont care if you singlehandedly built a sterile, working artificial heart out of three old scarves and the circuit board in a Tickle Me Elmo; if youre gonna say something as pig-ignorant as white supremacy in my opinion, is real only to the perpetrator, people are going to call you out on it, and they will be right to do so. the term white supremacy in my opinion, is real only to the perpetrator, self flattery, wishful thinking, no more. Larkin Allen Collins Jr. (July 19, 1952 January 23, 1990) was one of the founding members and guitarists of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and co-wrote many of the band's songs with late frontman Ronnie Van Zant. 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. Notes for ALLEN COLLINS: Allen was enumerated with 6 "free persons of color" in the 1830 Hawkins Co., TN Census. 1805. 1826. These included sudden death of his wife and later a car accident that left him paralyzed and his girlfriend dead. Shaming Asian Americans for toiling to get to where we are today. Many blacks teach their kids that America being the land of opportunity is just a bunch of bullshit, but the experience of Asian and Nigerian Americans proves its not bullshit, and if we can convince blacks to behave better (study 15-20 hours a week, work full time, pay attention in class, learn proper grammar, dont have kids before marriage, dont do drugs, save and dont blow money, do workbooks and flashcards summers), then the poverty of African Americans will soon be over, because whites are not discriminating against them. Again, colloquial speech as it were. If she doesnt want to sound like a fool, maybe it would help to crack a few books about the subject before she gets mad enough to start yelling online about something? And if she can drop the pretension of being an amateur Orientalist long enough actually listen to the Asian community its she thinks she represents, perhaps we can give her a few history lessons. The model minority was made official in 1966 by UC Berkeley sociologist William Petersen PhD with articles in Time magazine and US News and World Report comparing orientals with problem minorities (Black folks like MLK). So white students are 3X overrepresented at SOTA. Larkin Allen Collins Jr. was born on July 19, 1952, at St. Lukes Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, US. Collins and Ronnie co-wrote several hit songs for Skynyrd including Gimme Three Steps (1973), Free Bird (1974) and That Smell (1977). She said simply (and I will never forget it because it keeps being so true) well, you know theyre really rather stupid, and that always catches up to them.. The crash, which killed Ronnie VanZant, guitarist Steve Gaines, vocalist Cassie Gaines, road manager Dean Kilpatrick and seriously injured the rest of the band and crew, shattered Skynyrd's fast rising star as it cut a 500 foot path through the swamp.