San Francisco School Board Member Refuses to Resign After Anti-Asian Tweets Are Revealed

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The vice president of the board of the San Francisco Unified School District refused to resign this weekend despite facing criticism for a series of anti-Asian tweets.

San Francisco mayor London Breed (D.) and other officials called on school board vice president Alison Collins to resign this weekend after 2016 tweets surfaced in which she called Asian Americans “house n*****s” who “use white supremacist thinking to assimilate and ‘get ahead.'” In a Medium blog post, Collins said the tweets were “taken out of context.” She has not resigned as of Monday morning.

Collins said in the series of tweets that she was “looking to combat anti-black racism in the Asian community” at her daughter’s high school. Asian Americans “won’t engage” in conversations about critical race theory “unless they see how they are impacted by white supremacy,” Collins said. She also chided Asian Americans for not speaking up against then-president Donald Trump.

“Do they think they won’t be deported? profiled? beaten?” Collins tweeted. “Being a house n****r is still being a n****r. You’re still considered ‘the help.'”

This is the second time in recent months that Collins has been at the center of controversy. In October, Collins called parents “racist” for opposing a move to abandon the merit-based admissions process at Lowell High School, the district’s elite, STEM-focused magnet school. more here