Reactionary: Is it Right?

Is this what we have become and who we are as a nation?  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/us/texas-student-is-under-police-investigation-for-building-a-clock.html?emc=edit_th_20150917&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=40853516&_r=0

Ahmed Mohamed worked on what was a science project, and when he brought it to school, he was detained and suspended.

Do you think the same thing would have happened if he was Anglo? I do not care what the authorities say, I do not think an Anglo student would have been treated the same way.  His family had a cool response. I am glad the President Obama invited him to the White House.

I know people are afraid of Muslim fanatics. But can we afford to live in fear of every law abiding Muslim who lives in this country?  Why would we want to?

Let's think about it.  We have a lot of other fanatics in the country, whose fanaticism is based on Christianity:  The Ku Klux Klan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan for one.  I chose the Wikipedia article over a first source article because I did not want the source article on my computer.

Another group is the Fundamentalist Ladder Day Saints.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints  Again, I chose the Wikipedia article because I did not want the source article on my computer.

Yet another group is the Skinheads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinhead.

What about the Aryan Brotherhood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Brotherhood or the Aryan Circle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Circle?

How would we treat members of these groups in a situation similar to Ahmed Mohamed's?  The sad reality is that the members of some of these other groups that I have mentioned would probably get a pass.

Is that what you want the United States of America to stand for?  We have finally shut down the Jim Crow laws that discriminated against Afro-Americans.  Our civil rights laws and equal opportunity laws should protect other minorities.  But is that happening? There is still discrimination in this country.  It is subtle. It is not sanctioned by formal government. But it still occurs.

We are getting better. But we are not there yet.