Sigh. So a kid who loves robotics brings a homemade clock to school. He is told by his teacher it looks like a bomb, then is told by his principal that he tried to make a bomb, and is arrested and fingerprinted despite the fact that police chief Larry Boyd told MSNBC, “The officers quickly determined that they weren't investigating an explosive device.” Oh, by the way, he is a Muslim, so naturally this is the course that is taken. God forbid an AMERICAN kid actually wants to build something other than a column of striped candy in Candy Crush. Despite the fact that clearly a large group of people out there automatically assumed he must be wanting to blow up some infidels, he is a 14-year-old American high school student who wanted to impress his engineering teacher. Come on people, at this point, why don't we just round them all up and put them in internment camps, World War II style? I mean, that really worked out well for our relationship with Japanese people at the time. If he was white, or even black (at least you aren't the only victims of white oppression!), people would be reveling in his ingenuity.
Now the politicians are weighing in. Obama tries to make the kid feel better by tweeting an empty promise to come to the White House (just imagine the security check the Secret Service would make him go through). Then you have geniuses like Sarah Palin referring to him in a Facebook post as an “obviously obstinate-answering student” and essentially outright denying that it is a clock by saying, "Right. That's a clock, and I'm the Queen of England." Honestly, I don't think Sarah Palin could tell a clock from a kitchen timer. I mean, this is the woman who claimed she had foreign policy experience because she could see Russia from Alaska on a clear day, but I digress.
By the way, Sarah, his name is spelled "Mohamed," not "Muhammed." I know it's hard for you to see this, but they aren't at all the same. His name has been in the news enough. You could have at least spelled it right if you were going to accuse him of being an uncooperative little terrorist that built a “dangerous wired-up bomb-looking contraption.” (I'm pretty sure that is a technical term). I know that we live in a world where horrible things happen and one can never be too careful, but there is a difference between vigilance and paranoia.
And one more thing -- despite the fact that his pencil box doesn't look like yours, I assure you it is. It's a Vaultz locking pencil box. I know because I had one. This may come as a shock to you, but sometimes people and things look differently than what you know, and that doesn't automatically make them bad. Bigots like you are what make people want to join ISIS and blow us up with homemade bombs. So thanks for that.
