But this privacy claim is even more ridiculous given Lynch’s subsequent appearance on a public radio station to discuss her views about the tweets and the response to them. Lynch said she wanted to put her tweets in context, and her appearance on the “Wake Up with Tayla Andre” show allowed her to do just that.
The context she demanded people know is what she understands to be the “rampant and explicit and very, very visible acts of violence against black and brown bodies that has been happening.” She spends more than an hour expressing her fury about the complacency surrounding the deaths of unarmed blacks at the hands of police officers. Never mind that violent protests and riots followed the killings by the police officers. And never mind that there were no riots or any violence following the killings of the police officers.
Lynch stood her ground, refusing to backtrack on what she tweeted. Not even when asked whether she felt any differently, given that the two police officers who were killed were both minorities. Nope. Lynch said that minority members of police departments have an obligation “to speak up against their own institutions,” and those who are not “are just as guilty as the ones who are committing violence against black or brown bodies.”
Here are just some of the statements Lynch made during the interview:
America is a racist institution which relies and thrives on anti-blackness. American law enforcement is attacking black people. There are quotas that have to be reached [for arresting black people]. The American Law Enforcement today are the descendants of the slave overseers, who have a legacy of protecting capitalism. You’all are killing my people every single day. The police are shooting blacks on sight.
The radio show host congratulates Lynch on her heroic stand:
“I am very and thoroughly impressed,” Andre said to Lynch. “You stand by your words! You didn’t say, ‘oh, they were minorities, I take that back,’ no, ‘I stand by my word, I had no sympathy, as many of ours that have been taken away, I have no sympathy.'”
To which Lynch replies: “I don’t.”
LYNCH CLAIMS SHE DID NOT STEP DOWN FROM LEADERSHIP ROLE AT BRANDEIS AAAS
The interviewer was bothered by one thing, however. She wanted to know why Lynch agreed to step down as a student leader in Brandeis’s African and African-American Studies Department. Lynch ended up saying that she had not actually resigned, despite what members of the Brandeis administration said publicly. Lynch said she was told that it might be best if she resigned, but she never officially resigned. Both Lynch and Andre ended up concluding that Lynch still held her position in the AAAS department. That will be news to the department and the university.
One of the callers to the show warned Lynch that appearing on the show and making the kinds of comments she has made publicly may harm her in terms of future employment or in other ways. He told her that putting it out on social media and in other ways would put it out there for everyone to discuss. Lynch rebuffed the caller’s concern. She said, “I’m alive and here for it.”
As a young black woman, Lynch clearly sees current events through the prism of her own pain, which is understandable. What is harder to understand is her inability to see that her fury at targeting “all black and brown bodies” as criminals, as guilty, as bad or as wrong should enable her to see that it is also wrong to target all police officers or all whites or all Jews as “rich white rapists, racists, colonialists, Zionists, capitalists,” which is exactly what she does, at the end of her radio interview, when she reads aloud a poem she wrote.