Reaction: Texas High School Student Shows Off Homemade Clock, Gets Handcuffed
I feel really bad for Ahmed because he didn't do anything wrong, and just because of assumptions people made (with no evidence/proof), he got arrested. I think that many people think that the phase of racism is over, but using this article, you can see that people may have guessed that this clock that Ahmed made was a bomb just because of his ethnicity and race. I am very shocked with the reaction of Ahmed's teacher because Ahmed is just a kid who's hobby is to build things. The lens that I reacted to was definitely shock because in this story, people just judged this high-school student by what other people who have same race. This is really unfair. The police officers said that they weren't satisfied with what Ahmed's definition of what the clock was. Ahmed didn't have any other explanation, other than the fact that he made this clock, and he was proud of it. I learned that I was one of those people who thought racism was almost over, but I can tell that it i...