Maker and engineer of color arrested

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Last edited Wed Sep 16, 2015, 11:23 AM - Edit history (1)

Sorry to keep harping on this, but I just need to vent some more.

It's hard to be a person of color in America. It's hard to be a first-generation child of immigrants. It's hard to be Muslim. It's hard to be a person with an aptitude for science rather than sports.

All of those are difficult.

I'll also add, as a Maker, it's incredibly difficult to show something you've made to someone else. It's very intimate and very vulnerable. This was a huge act of trust on Ahmed's part to show the teacher.

I have no words for the teacher that took that act of trust and eviscerated this kid. Fuck you. You may have just destroyed the next Tesla or Maxwell. But even if he is not the nex Tesla or Maxwell; you betrayed a kid who trusted you and showed you something he made. That should be sacred. You are a teacher and if you don't see that you need to not be one.

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1. Agreed. That second teacher who alerted authorities over the clock . . .

is a poor teacher who jumped to a flawed conclusion: Sudanese student name Muhamed with an electronic device = a bomb maker.

Then the stupid cops carried the stupidity even farther by trying to brand the kid as a potential terrorist.

I don't think it will deter the student from realizing his potential as he has a very aware father who understands that his son was mistreated and will not let the incident traumatize his son and stifle his talent.