"This episode is a good illustration of how pernicious stereotypes can prevent even good-hearted people who have dedicated their lives to educating young people from doing the good work that they set out to do. President Barack Obama on Wednesday invited Ahmed Mohamed the 14-year-old from Irving, Texas, who was arrested after bringing a homemade clock that 'looked like a bomb' to school to bring the. That's too bad, but it's not too late for all of us to use this as a teachable moment and to search our own conscience for biases in whatever form they take," he said. "In this instance, it's clear that at least some of Ahmed's teachers failed him. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said that Obama like many others were struck by these reports. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. The incident ignited allegations of racial profiling and Islamophobia from many media sources and commentators. It's what makes America great," Obama tweeted.Ĭool clock, Ahmed. Ahmed Mohamed clock incident On September 14, 2015, then 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested at the MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, for bringing a disassembled digital clock to school.
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The incident has created an outrage in the country with messages of support pouring in from Obama, Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. Nice clock ahmed joke full So, when we’re at work blurry-eyed and not feeling our freshest, it’s not often the lack of food or drink, it’s the fact that we’re lacking a full night’s sleep due to our new eating, drinking and additional worship habits (as well as all the social iftars) that makes us a little slower than usual. Hours later, he was handcuffed and arrested by school resource officers as part of "standard procedure". US President Barack Obama has invited a 14-year-old Muslim schoolboy, who was arrested after his homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb, to the White House, saying "we should inspire more kids like you".Īhmed Mohamed, a Sudanese-American engineering enthusiast, brought the digital clock, made from a pencil case, to his school in Irving, Texas on Monday to show it to his teacher who mistook the clock to be a bomb.
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