Old School Tendencies

micdotcom:

This 14-year-old Muslim American student was detained for bringing a homemade clock to school 

Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old Muslim student was arrested at his high school in Irving, Texas, after bringing a homemade clock to class, which school officials mistook for a bomb. Mohamed showed his engineering teacher first, but when the alarmed went off later in the day, that’s when the trouble started. 

And this is precisely why I do not hold my tongue when I see (typically white cishet) teenagers saying or doing bigoted things. Because this 14-year-old innocent child, who is clearly not white-passing, is treated like a common criminal for no fucking reason. I’m very sorry, but in a world like this where PoC kids are being treated this badly, I I will not sit idly by while (typically white cishet) teenagers say racist, sexist, misogynistic, or otherwise bigoted shit. I simply won’t.

(Source: mic.com)