The San Francisco School Board has voted to strip Vice President Alison Collins of her leadership title after anti-Asian tweets she penned in 2016 were recently unearthed.
In a ‘special meeting’ held Thursday night, the Board voted 5-2 to pass a No Confidence Resolution against Collins following widespread backlash over her racist tweets.
In addition to revoking her VP title, the Resolution also removes Collins from all committees ‘for the duration of her term and effective immediately.’
However, she will still retain her position on the Board, and has resisted calls to resign.
After the meeting, she told the San Francisco Chronicle that the No Confidence Resolution ‘distracts from priority matters’.
The San Francisco School Board has voted to strip Vice President Alison Collins of her leadership title after anti-Asian tweets she penned in 2016 were recently unearthed
Collins has come under fire for a series of tweets she posted on December 4, 2016, in which she referred to Asian Americans as ‘house n***ers’ and said they used ‘white supremacist thinking’ to get ahead.
‘Where are the vocal Asians speaking up against Trump?’ Collins asked in her Twitter thread.
‘Don’t Asian Americans know they are on his list as well? 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”.
The Resolution stated that Collins’ tweets ‘perpetuate gross and harmful stereotypes and leave no room for nuance or potential misunderstanding’.
Five board members voted to pass the No Confidence Resolution, while only Collins herself and one other member voted to block it.
The ‘special meeting’ on Thursday night was held just 48 hours after hundreds of students and parents at San Francisco schools dialed into a Zoom Board meeting to blast Collins over her ‘disgusting’ tweets.
Collins – who identifies as black – stated during that meeting: ‘I’d like to reemphasize my sincere and heartfelt apologies and I’m currently engaging with my colleagues and working with the community for the good of all children in our district, especially black children who are often left behind’.
She made no specific mention of Asian-American students and parents she had offended with her tweets.
Several of the controversial tweets penned by Collins in December 2016 are pictured
The ‘special meeting’ on Thursday night was held just 48 hours after hundreds of students and parents at San Francisco schools dialed into a Zoom Board meeting to blast Collins over her ‘disgusting’ tweets.Collins is pictured middle row far right during a school board Zoom call on Tuesday night
Meanwhile, School Board Commissioners Faauuga Moliga and Jenny Lam both called for Collins to resign on the call – which she did not.
‘I am not alone when I say I do not have confidence in Collins’ ability to fairly govern a school district that is almost half AAPI with no bias,’ Lam stated.
Moliga and Lam led the No Confidence Resolution against Collins on Thursday night.
Collins penned a post on Medium over the weekend, claiming that her 2016 tweets had been taken out of context.
Shortly before she penned the tweets, Collins claimed her daughter had witnessed Asian American students at her middle school bullying a Latino student.
It was a time of processing, of fear among many communities with the unknown of how the next four years would unfold,’ Collins wrote.
The unearthing of her tweets comes amid an uptick in hate crimes against Asian Americans across the country.
The tweets were thrust into the spotlight just days after eight people, including six Asian women, were shot dead in Atlanta, Georgia.
Collins is pictured in her official San Francisco School Board head shot
Faauuga Moliga and Jenny Lam led the No Confidence Resolution against Collins on Thursday night
Collins penned a post on Medium over the weekend, claiming that her 2016 tweets had been taken out of context.
Shortly before she penned the tweets, Collins claimed her daughter had witnessed Asian American students at her middle school bullying a Latino student.
It was a time of processing, of fear among many communities with the unknown of how the next four years would unfold,’ Collins wrote.
The unearthing of her tweets comes amid an uptick in hate crimes against Asian Americans across the country.
The tweets were thrust into the spotlight just days after eight people, including six Asian women, were shot dead in Atlanta, Georgia.
Collins penned a post on Medium over the weekend, claiming that her 2016 tweets had been taken out of context
Meanwhile, San Francisco’s school board has been slammed recently for voting to rename 44 of the city’s schools that were alleged to have insensitive names.
The person in charge of the renaming effort admitted he researched the topic on Wikipedia and didn’t consult historians.
In January, the board voted 6-1 to strip the schools of their current monikers because they honor ‘racist’ figures from American history. Schools named after politicians including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln are now set to be rebranded in the coming months.
Meanwhile, a gay white father of a bi-racial child was denied a spot on the San Francisco Board of Education’s volunteer parent committee in February because his race doesn’t bring enough diversity to the group.
And the district of 52,000 students has been in a bitter dispute with unions over re-opening of the schools, which have been closed since the height of the coronavirus. Some schools will open April 12, but it’s not clear how many.
The unearthing of her tweets comes amid an uptick in hate crimes against Asian Americans across the country
