Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has criticised Barack Obama’s White House invitation to a Texas teen detained for bringing a kit clock to school.
A homemade clock crafted by 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed ‘looked nothing like a clock’, the one-time vice president candidate said on Facebook sharing a photo of its jumbled parts.
“That’s a clock, and I’m the queen of England,” Palin wrote Saturday.
While a world of scientists and engineers rallied around the MacArthur High School student, Palin dismissed the Irving teenager as only “an evidently obstinate-answering student”.
Palin said he deserved to be arrested by authorities — unlike kids who accidentally bring squirt guns to school or leave ammo in their vehicles after hunting.
“Kids humiliated and intimidated for innocent actions like those real examples are often marked the rest of their lives and made to feel really rotten,” she wrote.
Formal charges were not filed against Mohamed after teachers called police upon seeing Mohamed’s DIY clock.
The clock “obviously could be seen by conscientious teachers as a dangerous wired-up bomb-looking contraption,” Palin continued.
Palin’s rant follows daughter Bristol’s own blog post on Friday recommending Obama stay clear of Mohamed’s ordeal to avoid stirring up “racial strife”.
Bristol’s mother then accused Obama of playing the “cool savior” card by chiming in to Twitter to invite the teen to the White House.
-UK Mirror
Filed under: Foreign News Tagged: Ahmed Mohamed, Sarah Palin
