Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Perspective: 'Hoax bomb' incident shows curiosity is for white kids - latimes

This week, brown children across America learned a lesson: If you try to be like Steve Jobs, you could get arrested.

By now, you’ve heard about 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, a boy who brought a homemade clock to his high school in Irving, Texas. School officials and police called the engineering project a “hoax bomb.” Late Tuesday evening, a photo of Ahmed being led out of the school in handcuffs went viral. 

You may also have heard about the #IStandWithAhmed hashtag, and that the young man now has multiple invitations – to several college campuses, to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to a television show hosted by a Canadian astronaut, and even a personal invitation from Mark Zuckerberg to visit the Facebook campus.

He’s even gotten a ticket to the White House. - Read More at latimes

Perspective: 'Hoax bomb' incident shows curiosity is for white kids


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