<blockquote>Shortly after the press conference, President Barack Obama <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/644193755814342656" target="_blank">extended a Twitter invitation</a> for Ahmed to bring his “cool clock” to the White House. “We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great,” the tweet read.

Josh Earnest, Obama's press secretary, said the case goes to show how stereotypes can cloud the judgment of even the most “good-hearted people.”</blockquote>
via <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-9th-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school-so-you-tried-to-make-a-bomb.ece">Ahmed Mohamed swept up, 'hoax bomb' charges swept away as Irving teen's story floods social media | Dallas Morning News</a>.
<blockquote>“Having the skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause, not arrest,” Zuckerberg wrote. “The future belongs to people like Ahmed.”</blockquote>
Update From: <a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/9/16/9336557/ahmed-mohamed-clock-school"> Here's how a Texas school explained arresting a 14-year-old Muslim boy for making a clock</a>
<blockquote>The letter, which acknowledges no mistake whatsoever on the school's part even though by then school officials knew the clock was harmless, is infuriating to read for its tone-deafness.

It seems to imply that Mohamed was at fault for violating the "Student Code of Conduct." The letter also asks students to "immediately report any suspicious items and / or suspicious behavior," in effect asking students and parents help to perpetuate the school's practice of racist profiling, even after that profiling had been clearly demonstrated as without merit.</blockquote>