Last Updated on February 17, 2022
A pro-Black Lives Matter vice president of the San Francisco school board is refusing to resign after being criticized for a deluge of racist tweets against Asian Americans in 2016 where she said they used “white supremacist thinking” and compared them to “a house n****r.”
School Board VP Alison Collins said in 2016 that “In fact many Asian American Ts, Ss, and Ps actively promote these myths. They use white supremacist thinking to assimilate and ‘get ahead’.”
“Talk to many @thelowell parents and you will hear praise of Tiger Moms and disparagement of Black/Brown ‘culture,'” Collins continued in the tweet thread, going on to say, “I even see it in my FB timeline with former HS peers. Their TLs are full of White and Asian ppl. No recognition”.
Talk to many @thelowell parents and you will hear praise of Tiger Moms and disparagement of Black/Brown "culture".
— Alison Collins 高勵思 (@AliMCollins) December 4, 2016
I even see it in my FB timeline with former HS peers. Their TLs are full of White and Asian ppl. No recognition #BlackLivesMatter exists.
— Alison Collins 高勵思 (@AliMCollins) December 4, 2016
In another tweet, Collins queried, “Where are the vocal Asians speaking up against Trump? Don’t Asian Americans know they are on his list as well?”
The school board official expanded on her racist rhetoric in the final tweet of the thread, stating “Do they think they won’t be deported? profiled? beaten? Being a house n****r is still being a n****r. You’re still considered ‘the help.'”
Do they think they won't be deported? profiled? beaten? Being a house n****r is still being a n****r. You're still considered "the help."
— Alison Collins 高勵思 (@AliMCollins) December 4, 2016
Despite outrage over the tweets in 2021 during a time when black violence against the Asian-American community is on the rise, Collins has refused to step down from her post despite being denounced by all 19 top administrators at the school district’s central office in a public letter this week.
“A number of tweets and social media posts I made in 2016 have recently been highlighted,” Collins said this week in response to the backlash. “They have been taken out of context, both of that specific moment and the nuance of the conversation that took place.”
A number of tweets and social media posts I made in 2016 have recently been highlighted. They have been taken out of context, both of that specific moment and the nuance of the conversation that took place. https://t.co/oHDSZojGFc pic.twitter.com/ZoTdCBJv6f
— Alison Collins 高勵思 (@AliMCollins) March 20, 2021
Collins’ social media accounts are littered with posts supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, which is known for its acts of racially targeted mass violence and looting.
School district administrators slammed Collins’ non-apology and noted that she “has not seemed willing to take meaningful responsibility for her actions.”
