On: I’m Ahmed. Except I’m Not Brown

[dspeyer]

From the article:

> I’m angry, and I’m a little upset with myself because I want to be useful.

I'm thinking the same thing. What I'm wishing is that I held a position of influence at a private high school, so I could offer him immediate entrance and a full scholarship. Mostly to correct the injustice, but also because he's clearly a top student: unassisted home-made clock trumps perfect SSATs.

So if anybody reading this has such a position -- even a little bit -- please try to make it happen.

[throwaway1967 → dspeyer]

It seems that clock only took him 20 minutes to make, the night before.

He's made other things as well that are impressive. He makes his own radios and fixes his go-kart. Lots of potential there.

As for me, if flushing the toilet doesn't help, I need to call someone.