Ahmed Mohamed has been in the news constantly this past week, and for good reason. After the whole clock incident there's of course been a lot of outrage. And now various important people have been coming out to show their support for him -- Obama invited him to the White House, and today Microsoft gave him a bunch of goodies. This is fine. I'm happy for him!
BUT...
I feel like this is just all a big distraction from the actual issue at hand here. By focusing so much on Ahmed and how people are fixing Ahmed's situation, we're ignoring everyone else that racism affects. I don't know, I just feel like people will be satisfied by seeing Ahmed happy and whatever that they'll forget about the systemic problems and nothing will change.
And all of these big companies/people coming out and giving him grand gestures just feels like phony self-promotion. ("Look at us! We're not racist, we gave that brown kid a computer! Apple didn't do that!") The whole thing has sort of left a bad taste in my mouth and I feel like everyone is going to forget about the issue until the next time this inevitably happens.
Hubski, what do you think about this whole situation?