Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman says she was racially profiled by security guard

Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in history, claims she was racially profiled by a security guard who “tailed me on my walk home tonight.”

Gorman, a Harvard graduate and National Youth Poet Laureate, said the incident occurred Friday night.

“He demanded if I lived there because ‘you look suspicious,” Gorman tweeted. “I showed my keys & buzzed myself into my building. He left, no apology.”

Gorman, who will celebrate her 23rd birthday Sunday, called the incident “the reality of black girls.”

“One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat,” she wrote in the tweet.

“In a sense, he was right,” Gorman said in another twee... (Read more)

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https://twitter.com/TheAmandaGorman/status/1368010884111421440

https://twitter.com/TheAmandaGorman/status/1368016803553710082

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