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 “Followed me on my walk home tonight.”

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

“He asked if I lived there because ‘you look suspicious’, Gorman tweeted. “I showed my keys and entered my building. He’s gone, no excuses.

Gorman, who will celebrate his 23rd birthday on Sunday, called the incident a “black girl’s reality.”

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

“In one sense he was right,” Gorman said in another tweet. “I AM A THREAT: a threat to injustice, inequality, ignorance. Anyone who speaks the truth and walks with hope is an obvious and fatal danger to the powers that be.

The Los Angeles native captivated viewers at President Biden’s swearing-in ceremony with his moving rendition of “The Hill We Climb,” a work about unity, healing and perseverance.

“When the day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find the light in this endless hue?” Gorman began his inaugural poem.

She continued, “And yet the dawn is upon us before we know it. One way or another, we do. Somehow we have resisted and witnessed a nation that is not broken but simply unfinished.