Amanda Gorman Reveals Security Guard Said She Looked ‘Suspicious’: ‘Reality Of Black Girls’

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Amanda Gorman, 22, opened up about “the reality of black girls” while detailing an incident that happened right outside of her own apartment building on Friday night, March 5. “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,” the U.S.’s first National Youth Poet Laureate wrote in a message that she posted on her social media accounts on March 5.

Amanda then wrote that the security guard “left” and offered “no apology.” Considering that she was sharing this story just weeks after her poem recitation at Joe Biden‘s inauguration went viral, the renown poet added, “This is the reality of black girls: One day you’re called an icon,