Bristol Palin, the daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. took to her Patheos blog to slam President Obama for inviting Ahmed Mohamed to the White House, saying the reach-out to the arrested ninth-grade, bomb-making suspect is sparking more "racial strife" than the Black Lives Matter movement.
Mohamed, a student at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, was arrested earlier this week when alarmed individuals asked if he tried "to make a bomb" with a homemade clock, after he showed the contraption to several teachers, various media reported. He was taken to juvenile detention and suspended from school, despite the fact his clock was simply a clock.
Critics said the school overreacted and that Mohamed was the target of racial profiling. Obama soon after stepped in and invited the teen to the White House, tweeting: "Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great."
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Palin took umbrage with that invite.
"This is the kind of stuff Obama needs to STAY out of," she wrote on Pantheos. "This encourages more racial strife that is already going on with the 'Black Lives Matter' crowd and encourages victimhood."
Palin went on, saying the "police made a mistake, clearly."
But, she asked, "why put more people against them? Why egg it on? Childish games like this from our president have divided our country ... even more today than when he was elected."
Palin wasn't the only one criticizing Obama for the invitation. A black Georgia teen, 13, cut a YouTube video to make the same case as Palin – that the president was out of line for the reach-out.
"When cops are gunned down," said CJ Pearson, who hails from the Augusta area, the video showed, "you don't invite them to the White House. You never did. But when a Muslim builds a clock, come on by. What is this world you're living in?"