Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first youth poet laureate, said she was „tailed“ and told „you look suspicious“ by a security guard as she walked home Friday night.
„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,“ Gorman wrote in a post on her verified Instagram account. „This is the reality of black girls: One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat,“ she added. In a later tweet, the 22-year-old said, „In a sense he was right. I AM A THREAT: a threat to injustice, to inequality, to ignorance. Anyone who speaks the truth and walks with hope is an obvious and fatal danger to the powers that be.
