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Student clockmaker

The arrest of Ahmed Mohamed for bringing a homemade digital clock to school has a very simple explanation.

It has nothing to do with culture, or color, or religion. It happened because stupid people can never tell when they are dumber than someone else. And all those people in Texas involved in his arrest couldn’t tell they were all dumber than a 14-year-old science nerd.

Lisa Morales, Davie

This story was originally published September 29, 2015 at 7:05 PM with the headline "Student clockmaker."

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