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How Ahmed’s clock became a false, convenient tale of racism

clock not bomb

one is a clock one is a bomb , a week after 9/11

By Kyle Smith

September 19, 2015 | 2:35pm

When is America going to get serious about the problem of white kids getting suspended from school for nothing?

By now you’ve heard the story of Ahmed Mohamed, crowned by the Daily Beast “The Muslim Hero America Has Been Waiting For” after the 14-year-old brought to school a beeping, strange-looking homemade concealed device that turned out to be a clock.

School officials, thinking, as 95% of Americans would, that it kinda looked like a bomb, hauled him out of class. Police put him in handcuffs and, even after the confusion passed, the boy was suspended from school.

That earned Mohamed a planned trip to the White House, a message of support from Hillary Clinton, an offer to stop by Facebook to meet Mark Zuckerberg and an invitation to be an intern at Twitter.

https://nypost.com/2015/09/19/how-ahmeds-clock-became-a-false-convenient-tale-of-racism/