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bioemerl · 3383 days ago · link · · parent · post: I feel like by focusing so much on Ahmed Mohamed as an individual, we're distracting ourselves from the real problem at hand.
Welcome to the media, it's not about the actual issues, it's about making the biggest splash, the most outrage, and invoking the most emotions from every tale they can find. Leads to views. Real discussion, deep discussion, and so on, exist only in places like this, where people who see past the "crap" or are part of communities that have taught them to do so. Few people really care about the bigger issues, they care about the shining gold trophy they can hold over their heads and feel good about. The Rosa Parks, the Ahameds, and so on. Racism is over after all. We won that fight.By focusing so much on Ahmed and how people are fixing Ahmed's situation, we're ignoring everyone else that racism affects.