For this post I'm gonna have to ask all
of you to not put on your Social Justice Warrior t-shirt, form your
own opinion, be honest, and realize that things are not the way they
used to be. A few days ago a 14 year old student in Irving, Texas
named Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for bringing a home made alarm clock to school.
His teacher freaked out thinking it was a bomb, just like I would've,
and called the police which led to his arrest. “I built the clock
to impress my teacher, but when I showed it to her, she thought it
was a threat to her. It was really sad that she took the wrong
impression from it” Ahmed said after being released from a
detention center to his parents.
The school, MacArthur High School, said
that they are willing to allow Ahmed to return to the school but the
family does not want him there and deciding where he'll go instead.
The internet has started the hashtags #IstandWithAhmed and
#EngineersForAhmed because that is what the world does now. President
Barack Obama even invited him to the White House. Why? I'm not sure.
I'm really not.
