The Texas Tech University Black Student Association has the worst timing.
It tweeted “All lives don’t mater [sic]… White lives don’t matter… Blue lives don’t matter… #BlackLivesMatter” – the day before a sniper killed five Dallas cops and wounded several more who were protecting a Black Lives Matter march.
The now-deleted July 6 tweet made the rounds as a screenshot and drew outrage from KFYO Lubbuck radio host Chad Hasty, who devoted several minutes of his show to it:
I guarantee you, if it was any, any kind of young Republican, young conservative, college Republican, student government association that had tweeted out about Black Lives Matter, the university would take swift action.
The BSA’s tweets have now been marked “protected,” meaning only those whom it approves as followers can view them. (Its public Facebook group only has three members and has not been publicly updated since October 2014.)
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Fox 34 reports that the organization has set up a new Twitter account whose background image is full of inspirational language. Its only post, made earlier this afternoon, disavows the deleted tweet and says the group is “investigating who originated the tweet.”
— TTU BSA (@txtechbsa) July 13, 2016
Texas Tech itself released a statement saying it’s “dedicated to an inclusive environment for all and supports our students’ rights to freedom of expression” (must be news to this sorority):
A recent tweet sent from a student organization account is not representative of the university or the student organization.
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But back to Texas Tech valuing its “students’ rights to freedom of expression” …
The university has a yellow-light rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education – Texas Tech describes sexual “jokes, remarks, questions, looks, gestures” as sexual harassment, among other dubious policies – and FIRE sued it 13 years ago for restricting freedom of expression for 28,000 students to a 20-foot gazebo:
Though Texas Tech allowed the [Iraq war] protest and the school subsequently greatly expanded the campus “free speech area” beyond the gazebo, the school refused to change the unconstitutional policies until they were struck down by a federal judge in September of 2004.
Read the KFYO and Fox 34 reports.
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