This Ted Cruz Booster Is 13, Black, and Just Shredded Obama on Clock Kid

By Published on September 18, 2015

Earlier this week, a 13-year-old kid named Coreco JaQuan Pearson sat down in front of a camera in the kitchen of his home in Grovetown, Ga. CJ had a lot on his mind: the 14-year-old Muslim student invited to the White House after he was wrongly arrested for building a clock thought to be a bomb; the young woman allegedly shot by an undocumented immigrant in San Francisco; the four Marines gunned down in Chattanooga over the summer; the Black Lives Matter movement.

President Obama, CJ feared, didn’t have his White House in order. It was a lot to distill into a short message — one that would catch fire among CJ’s 35,000 Twitter followers and large YouTube audience. But CJ was determined to make this quick — and needed little more than two minutes to make his point.

“Mr. President,” he began, speaking with a Southern twang. “When Kate Steinle was gunned down by an illegal immigrant, you didn’t do anything. You didn’t even call the family. You didn’t invite them to the White House. Is that okay? I don’t think so, Mr. President.”

Twenty seconds had gone by — but CJ was just getting warmed up.

“When cops are being gunned down, you don’t invite their family to the White House,” he said. “You never did.”

This was just the set-up. Then came the punch.

“When a Muslim kid builds a clock?” CJ said. “Well, come on by. What is this world that you are living in?”

Read the article “This Ted Cruz Booster Is 13, Black, and Just Shredded Obama on Clock Kid” on washingtonpost.com.

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