“Clock boy” Ahmed Mohamed wants an apology–and $15M

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$15 million seems excessive. But that's the American dream.

He disassembled a clock and put it inside a briefcase, intentionally making it look like a movie-style bomb.

He was repeatedly told not to plug it in and he did so anyway. It's pretty clear he brought a hoax bomb to school to cause a scene probably for political purposes as his father is a politician in Qatar.

The media refuses to do any actual investigation beyond reminding us that Texans are racist.

If Texans are so reliably and predictably racist that someone can plan such an outlandish far fetched hoax and still have it succeed, then perhaps the fact that they are racist is still the main story.

Qatar, Sudan it's all the same right?

In all fairness, Ahmed doesn't probably want the $15M. This number is made up by the parents and lawyers.

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