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| If I made a clock it would almost look this good. |
It's time for Ahmed's 15 minutes of clock fame to be over.
#IDONTSTANDWITHAHMED #ISTANDWITHPOLICE #ISTANDWITHTEACHERS
I am genuinely irritated with this clock kid. Well, not just the kid but all the media outlets, CEO's, and US Presidents making this kid out to be boy wonder. He's not. He's also not a victim.
This is not your father's America. Horrendous things happen every day and we can not afford to ignore suspicious circumstances. I don't know what a bomb looks like, but if something is in a case that looks like a briefcase and it ticks I'm calling the police. A concerned teacher reports a suspicious item to the authorities - she did EXACTLY what she should have done, as did the principal, and the police.
Police described Ahmed as being “passive aggressive” in his answers to their questions, and didn’t have a “reasonable answer” as to what he was doing with the case. Ahmed is telling what happened during his interrogation and people are believing it. If I'm choosing between believing the police or believing a 14 year old kid, I'm going with the police. Teachers and police - 2 groups underpaid and overworked and we choose to trust the kid.
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| The face of a kid that just hit the Victim jackpot, |
I don't know the whole story here. I have heard (and it seems pretty legit) that he actually didn't even "invent" this clock. What I DO know is that we are deterring people from speaking up when they are uncomfortable about a situation that could be dangerous. The next person that happens on something that makes them wary might just choose to ignore it. And what if it's a bomb? If we vilify the people willing to step up and speak out and celebrate the "victim" then we are setting ourselves up for potential violence. Here's the thing - you can either be safe or you can be sorry but you can't be both.
The kid now will be making the rounds, Google, Facebook, the White House. I wonder, if he had arrived at Facebook with his "pencil case" asking to see Mark Zuckerberg if security would have let him pass? Could he have taken a tour of the White House with it? And yet, he now gets to do those things. His family will sue the district and already 2 gofundme accounts are open for him, How must that teacher and those police officers feel? He's a rock star and once again we illustrate how we feel about the police in our society. He gets to roam the country trash talking the school and the police and we just watch it happen.
When I see this kid I don't think Muslim. I think of a kid and his family that are taking full advantage of a situation that was totally in their control and it is turning out much better than they could ever imagine. You want to call me Islamaphobic - go ahead, I've been called worse but why do we so quickly jump to racism and assume that he's a victim? What did he do to deserve our respect over those of the teacher and the police? Nothing. He did absolutely nothing to deserve it and yet he's getting respect and SO much more. Makes me sick.
