"Damn! They never thought he had a bomb!"

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97. The problem started when they put these racist ass-clowns in charge of children.

On my planet, millions of white kids bring shit to school every day that they didn't have pre-screened. People deal with it.

I am not sure if you have heard of Sputnik, but at one time this country was afraid we were going to fall behind in technology, so we invested in an emphasis on engineering and science educations. Literally millions of kids since then have dragged boxes, car trunks, freakin' pickup beds full of wires, timers, rockets, transformers, dangerous chemical substances to school. I and millions of other white kids have done the same and far more dangerous things. We were never even suspected, much less arrested. White kids continue to do the same thing without being molested. I have been unable to find an instance where the teachers thought a white kid had a bomb instead of something he was trying to learn about. Not fucking one.

The only differences here are the color of the kid's skin and his religion. Oh, and cowardly adults who apparently find it easier to beat up on a 12 year old kid than confront their own racism, or that of their peers.

People who blame this kid for being a kid, and not acting in another way, are practicing "respectability politics". It has been around a long time, and reared it's ugly head recently after the many homicides of unarmed black folk, where they are told if they just act in more approved ways, their troubles will cease.

But the promise of respectability politics is a lie, "You can do everything “right” in America, but if you’re black, racism will always pose a threat to your life." It avoids the problem. It doesn't address the racism that caused the issue.

Now we have it being practiced on Muslims,

People say the kids are our future,as if we are going to breed ourselves out of our problems. Yet we teach them hate while they are still young, and then they grow up to be like us. Until we find a fix, perhaps grow a backbone and protect these kids from these bullies, and the racist or cowardly adults, we have no hope.