San Francisco is the 'melting pot'.
I watched most of President Biden's speech on 'Asian Hate Crimes' and realized that they needed a 'White Guy' as the Poster Boy. It would be hard to sell 'It's Trump's Fault' if the Poster Boy was Black.
So, even though I think this latest killing spree was because the guy was a Religious Quack, and not because he was racist, I can now see how the 'Asian Hate Crime' narrative, and the 'Blame the Trumptopians' narrative needed a 'White Guy' as the Poster Boy.
They've had several high profile attacks in the Bay Area on Asians committed by black people recently. And the argument is even though a black person committed the crime it was caused by white supremacy. But to a national audience it is much easier to have a white person as the poster child.
For example, this was in our paper today: (Alison Collins is a black woman)
San Francisco school board member Alison Collins used slur to describe Asian Americans in tweets
The vice president of the San Francisco Board of Education once wrote a long Twitter thread accusing Asian Americans of using "white supremacist thinking to assimilate and 'get ahead,'" and comparing them to a "house n****r" (she added the asterisks and did not spell out the word).
Alison Collins's tweets — still not deleted as of Friday morning — were written in December 2016. They're coming to light now as a group pushes to recall the entire school board over prolonged school closures, and also during a time when anti-Asian American rhetoric has come under closer scrutiny following a sharp rise in hate crimes.
Collins wrote that she was "looking to combat anti-black racism in the Asian community at at my daughters' mostly Asian Am school," because "Many Asian Ss and Ts I know won't engage in critical race convos unless they see how they are impacted by white supremacy."
"Ss and Ts" appear to refer to students and teachers. "Critical race convos" may be a reference to critical race theory, a controversial framework for examining race and racism in all aspects of society that has grown in popularity in recent years.
Collins continued, "Many Asian Am. believe they benefit from the 'model minority' BS," and "many Asian American Ts, Ss, and Ps [teachers, students and parents] actively promote these myths. They use white supremacist thinking to assimilate and 'get ahead.'"
Near the end of the thread, Collins writes, "Where are the vocal Asians speaking up against Trump? Don't Asian Americans know they are on his list as well?" She added, "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.'"
Collins did not respond to SFGATE's request for comment.
Her tweets have since sparked outrage, with many San Franciscans expressing disbelief.
"My elderly Asian parents and grandparents as well as the AAPI community are NOT 'house n-words,'" wrote one user. "You racist bigot. Retract this and apologize NOW!"
"Alison Collins needs to go," wrote another. "I look forward to the Supervisors and Mayor asking for her resignation immediately."
Collins had previously drawn scrutiny for being a strong proponent of Lowell High School dropping its merit-based admissions process, calling merit-based admissions "racist" since the school was majority Asian American and did not enroll as many African American and Latino students relative to their population in the city.
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/art...n-Francisco-school-Asians-tweets-16038855.php