Amanda Gorman, the 22-year-old poet who made worldwide headlines in January when she recited her original poetry at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration,took to social media on Friday to say she was followed home by a security guard who demanded to know where she lived because she "looked suspicious." "A security guard tailed me on my walk home tonight," wrote Gorman on Twitter. "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." Gorman, a Los Angeles native, later added, "In a sense, he was right.
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