Poet Amanda Gorman: Guard Tailed Me Home, Called Me ‘Suspicious’
“This is the reality of black girls: One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat.”
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Poet Amanda Gorman, who electrified President Biden’s inauguration with her reading, says she was followed home by a security guard who said she looked “suspicious.” In a tweet on Friday night, the 22-year-old Harvard grad, who lives in Los Angeles, said the guard demanded to know if she lived in her building. “I showed my keys & buzzed myself into my building,” she wrote. “He left, no apology. This is the reality of black girls: One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat.”
A security guard tailed me on my walk home tonight. He demanded if I lived there because “you look suspicious.” I showed my keys & buzzed myself into my building. He left, no apology. This is the reality of black girls: One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat. https://t.co/MmANtQqpBs
— Amanda Gorman (@TheAmandaGorman) March 6, 2021
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