We are angered and disturbed to see that Alison Collins, VP of the SF Board of Education, has referred to Asian Americans as “house n****r[s]” in a 2016 tweet thread. Labelling our diverse API communities with such hateful language is racist and wrong. It is time to call out racism in our own City. Her words dehumanize Asians — our students, parents and teachers are not allowed to feel safe, accepted, or valued in our own school district. As an elected official, she must be held accountable for her actions. After refusing to adequately take responsibility for her words, over 20 elected officials, all of the top school district staff, and four Democratic Clubs have called for Collins to resign. Add your name to the petition below.

Read more about the racist tweets in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Commissioner Alison Collins’s public 2016 tweet thread dehumanizes our students and parents, and divides our communities of color. After refusing to adequately take responsibility for her words, I want her to resign.

SF Leaders:

• London Breed, San Francisco Mayor
• Jenny Lam, SF School Board Commissioner
• Faauuga Moliga, SF School Board Commissioner
• Scott Wiener, CA State Senator
• David Chiu, CA Assembly Member
• Phil Ting, CA Assembly Member
• Carmen Chu, City Administrator
• Shamann Walton, President, SF Supervisor District 10
• Connie Chan, SF Supervisor District 1
• Catherine Stefani, SF Supervisor District 2
• Aaron Peskin, SF Supervisor District 3
• Gordon Mar, SF Supervisor District 4
• Matt Haney, SF Supervisor District 6
• Myrna Melgar, SF Supervisor District 7
• Rafael Mandelman, SF Supervisor District 8
• Hillary Ronen, SF Supervisor District 9
• Ahsha Safai, SF Supervisor District 11
• Janice Li, BART Director
• Bevan Dufty, BART Director
• David Campos, Chair, SF Democratic Party
• Christine Pelosi, Chair, CA Democratic Party Women’s Caucus
• Stēvon Cook, Former President, SF School Board
• Rachel Norton, Former SF School Board Commissioner
• Norman Yee, Former President, SF Supervisor
• Jane Kim, Former SF Supervisor
• Sandra Lee Fewer, Former SF Supervisor
• Mary Jung, Former Chair, SF Democratic Party
• Claudine Cheng, Former First Vice Chair, SF Democratic Party
• Alex Randolph, Former President, SF City College Board
• Ivy Lee, Former City College trustee
• Meredith Willa Dodson, Decreasing the Distance – SF
• Lee Cheng, Founder, Asian American Legal Foundation

Organizations:

• Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club
• Chinese American Democratic Club 華裔民主黨協進會
• Edwin M. Lee Asian Pacific Democratic Club
• Families for San Francisco
• Rose Pak Democratic Club
• United Democratic Club

See our website for the full list of political public figures and clubs who together are calling for Alison Collins to resign from the San Francisco Board of Education: https://www.edleedems.org/events/alison-collins-must-resign