You need the right name

Clearly, Ahmed Mohamed does not have the right name in 21st century America. Mohamed is a kid, he attends the ninth grade in a Texas school. He decided to build a digital clock to impress his teacher. The impression he created was that it was a bomb. The police were called to the school and interrogated him. He was refused a call to his parents. Evetually he was arrested and left school in handcuffs. A national brouhaha has followed; Obama, Clinton, Zuckerberg, MIT have all chimed in and derided the stupidity of the school and the police. Eventually, the police chief acknowledged, “We have no evidence to support that there was an intention to create alarm or cause people to be concerned.” Would anything have happened if his name was Smith? That's very likely as he did create something interesting. But we live in fear. Anyone who might be a Muslim has to be suspicious.