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.
Maybe this security guard had other ideas going on in his head, like rape for instance. He could also be a serial murderer.
Sometime people don't listen to poilce man. Maybe she didn't drive well.
We don't know truth
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That’s messed up.
Is racism artificial or natural
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It would be nice to be objective and get the security persons story. Maybe Amanda was 'acting' suspicious and paranoid.
the only black girls i know are the ones who call me chinky go back to your countries mf!!! 🤣
False victimhood for publicity.
Why is it that I don't believe this simply because she was in the greatest stage in the country at that day and she had to be cleared to get into Washington doesn't make sense
The news is that she tweeted something, not that she was tailed by a security guard. Do your job, CNN. Interview her. Find out about the security guard. Find the security guard.
Wow! If you are on a public street walking home...a security guard has no business following anyone...anywhere. Sounds to me like the security guard already knew who she was and was out to try and intimidate her.
TAINA525 Has anyone spoken or question the security guard to find out why he followed Amanda Gorman home? I'd like hear his side of the story.
Sounds fake
Racial profiling
Who was the pig Show him.
She is a little strange
CNN spreading more race-baiting.
Racism & hate against blacks can never end forever in the hearts of many. 'Forgive Africans for being black, they didn't make themselves black, God did' ~King Michael the 4th.
jaketapper Big shame on some of the people in America that they feel the need to do what that so called RACIST guard did!!😬🤨🤬
KarinaFRamirez We may think we’ve made progress, but we haven’t
the other day when story was first reported she said she was followed around by a cop who looked at her like she was doing something wrong and she felt threatened now they are saying the cop told her you loom suspicious i feel cnn is just adding to the story and making up lies
That just goes to show doesn't matter how hard you try as a black man or black woman will always be haters in all forms of shapes and colours that think you're a thief or you're up to something suspicious because of the colour of your skin
Time for him to be fired cuz she wasn't suspicious she was just walking while black
“ says she was “ . So of course it happened .
Fake news.....attention seeker!
jaketapper Wait a fucking minute. A security guard TAILED her as she walked home? How about details on where the security guard actually worked. Aside from being racist, this seems like a serious violation of his actual duties. Did the guard leave the property they worked at to follow her?
America needs a few more Obamas.
abbydphillip I would like to see you interview AmandaGorman...she has become such a powerful bright light in America...🇺🇲 such an unfortunate situation with her being profiled.. cnn Politics InsidePolitics
Here we go again 🙄
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The ignorance remains, unfortunately, wearing badges.
Security guard should be fired ASAP. To be facially profiling in 2021 is a joke. Anyone excusing the security guard is as dumb as he is.
That gaurd needs to be checked. Sounds like they have been drinking the Trump Kool-aid
Cnn manufactures more racism than the kkk and blm combined.
5' 4' of 'completely suspicious' my ass
jaketapper It seems like white people are the problem.
He should be Fired or if I was her and he worked for the Apartment Complex I would ask for my Deposit Back and do a young girl walking look suspicious,wonder if she was White he would have Felt the
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Just no knowledge or respect for persons of color.
If that isn’t ethnic profiling.....
That’s absurd... CNN as always searching to create hate...
u3girlz It is sad...we need to do better to be better...
Has CNN “found” the security guard yet 🤔
Didn’t take long did it 🤔
Here we go again with the nonstop day and night race card playing by the left.
Shes a hot piece of chocolate meat if you ask me
Change must come!😔
I believe her, there is only one reason for him to say 'you look suspicious'
Does anyone else think her hands look creepy in this pic?
Disgraceful!! This is what BLM is about! Not the same as the QAnon POS’s that stormed the capital because they didn’t like the outcome of the election! &% them!!
susanoconn And the guard has been fired ...
where is the evidence of this?
profiling has to stop
One security guard
Let's get all the details before we pass judgment on anyone shall we?
jaketapper I'm a security guard, and not once have I ever been asked to tail anyone. That guy was stalking her, and has mental issues. There is no training for security guards that entails stalking, tailing, or following people outside of where you are guarding.
Let's tell them to buy bitcoin csc so it doesnt happen again
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪 she should have worn that same outfit for the rest of her life then
That was a RACIST tryna show his hate for Black. Tell him he is nothing but a Recessive gene.
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There have also been guards following her because of the threats she has received.
After Jussie Smollet and that NASCAR guy, sorry but I need proof. Fact is a black celebrity going through something like this bumps them up in their career. To look like a martyr/hero. To much to gain.
jaketapper What's the proof? Did anybody verify what she's saying or is it because 'Amanda Gorman' said it, so obviously it's the truth?
Why was she walking home alone? Not safe for us (black and brown women) to walk alone, especially at night.
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I think that she now has to be very careful! If she knows the name of that security guard she should give it to the police, other law enforcement officials and the FBI! TheAmandaGorman
America’s haunting history lives on and is perpetuated today 🤦♂️🙄
It seems that America is regressing to its racist, bigoted roots at warp speed.
This just saddens me to know end. This should NEVER happen. Full stop.
That is what racism is! Being followed - harassed - blocked- impeded or anything else.
jaketapper Very wrong. Very sad.
This is a sad reality of our country. Nothing will change until the racism is gone.
We deify and destroy people too quickly. I thought her poem was derivative. The other kid that didn’t stutter once during his speech after meeting Joe only recently was more inspiring IMO
jaketapper I guess the smart doesn't rub of either 🙄
jaketapper Is there even a chance that this is true? I can’t buy it at this point.
😂😂 get use to it you’re black and until you get your people to stop committing the majority of crime
how about some further investigation? can we find out which bigoted security guard was on duty that time?
Where’s the proof?
jaketapper As the TEMPTATIONS SAY' A CHANGE HAS COME EITHER YOU GET ON BOARD STEP ASIDE OR GET LEFT BEHIND'
Must have been a white man to pull out the race card.
Are you saying if you are a black woman you can't look suspicious
Why they use color instead talent? That is very racist
jaketapper This is one case where 'Do you know who I am?' is completely justified.
Shouldn’t she be able to expose this guy by going back to the exact place he was being paid to patrol and find out who was on duty that night? In the age of Jussie Smollett, you run the risk of not being believed, hence the “things that didn’t happen for $800 Alex” memes.
Jussie Smollette?
Racial or gender equality only exists in politicians' slogan. People never need to fight for things they already have.
Do I smell a Jussie Smollett situation here?
Unbelievable that this is still happening in 2021.
jaketapper Amanda did deserve an apology-no common decency there 🥲
jaketapper I’d follow her if I saw her...and bow down & ask for her autograph ♥️
The race card is really tiring 😭
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Amanda Gorman doesn't look suspicious it's the bully boys saying she does to justify following her..
Always playing the “icon” card.
jaketapper Did she look suspicious, or very delicious?, it seems as though the security man, was quite malicious
It is wrong when you walk up and say your suspicious..nobody should ask you when your walking at any time or any place. period.
I’m sure this is an experience that isn’t seldom to “black girls”
That’s ridiculous! She should have taken his picture and shame him on Social Media.
Who cares
Africans account for less than 15 percent of the US population yet they commit 65 percent of all violent crimes
Call it out. Loud and clear. This would not have happened to a white woman folks.
jaketapper Suspicious of what exactly I wonder?
jaketapper That sucks
jaketapper Sadly, I’m sure not a single white insurrectionist was “tailed” from Trump’s January 6th insurrection kick-off to the Capitol. Maybe the FBI emailed a serious black person walking threat assessment about Ms. Gorman to the security guard the night before she went on her walk.
jaketapper This absolute determination to weaponize victimization as-if when it happens to one it happens to all is absurd, and on its face, self-serving. Not helpful. It isn't just because one says it is. Many people are gullible. Most are not *that* gullible. It is counterproductive.
The Land of Freedom for walking down the road without being a suspect, welcome to the land of Demockery.
Sick Sick
Hope this is true. Because if not this scary.
Stop, just stop.
I’m going to need the security guard’s side of the story.
But the security guatd was black also.
jaketapper The “security guard” is the scary person.
jaketapper
Amanda Smollett..
ض معناته انت مشتركه معهم المذيع لابس اصفر برضو مهم الولايات المتحده وبايدين ما بدي الرئيس اردوغان الي هذول هم
Smollett, Wallace, Gorman and Little
Don’t look suspicious.
Ok in all fairness. Maybe he just never saw her at that building before. Was he a new security guard. We have to be mindful of calling racism all the time, eventually it will be like the boy who cried wolf.
jaketapper No Racism ?
Man cmon.....
jaketapper Police are racist and abovethelaw...
So many triggered white men. 😂
Donald Trump’s major achievement during his inglorious reign was making the United States an epic centre of racism, police 👮♀️ brutality and oppression against blacks. What a shame.
Maybe is was those Duke lacrosse players
Look out a dangerous poet on the loose. They might make you feel feelings and question concepts.
Poor girl is imagining things.
jaketapper Appalling. I tried to organize a peaceful protest over this, but we all agreed it was a bit too chilly outside still. When spring arrives and it starts to warm up, I'll be sure to have saved my outrage.
Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out. — Pierre Berton
The media makes them icons when in fact they're accomplished in their own and role models. The media sure knows how to screw up things.
Crazy that people still judge others by the color of their skin
Lol CNN loves to believe these black stories cause they need the race bait to get people to read their stuff, but no coverage of the democrat sensual predator COUMO
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