Re:‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar
by kraig911 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @10:23AM
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I think my point is there is no champion at all in this. Whether his story was true or he deliberately did it. In the end both scenarios playing out we as USA still lose. Only one scenario makes us look less bad but bad is still bad.
> This kid stuck a Radio Shack clock in a pencil case, and deliberately disrupted a class with it after he was asked to put it away -- he plugged it into the wall and left it beeping until he was kick out of class and arrested for having a hoax bomb.
> The only thing the clock this kid made is telling is that we're still in a time where racism and xenophobia is rampant still in America.
Sure ,but is it about racism ? or is this about the media making stuff up ?
Was he arrested because he was "brown" ? or because he behaved like a moron in class ? I don't have the answers, but let's choose our champions carefully here.
The media often make up their own stories just for the sake of milking them ad nauseam. It wouldn't be the first time.