Amanda Gorman, who became a national figure after she delivered a stirring poem at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, said she was followed by a security guard who questioned whether she lived in her own building. Gorman, 22, wrote on Twitter that a security guard “tailed” her while she was walking home Friday night. “He demanded if I lived there because ‘you look suspicious.
. “He left, no apology. This is the reality of black girls: One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat.”Gorman wrote the Friday night tweet quoting another message she wrote in February linking to a Washington Post profile about her newly found stardom after the inauguration. “We live in a contradictory society that can celebrate a black girl poet & also pepper spray a 9 yr old,”
. “Yes see me, but also see all other black girls who’ve been made invisible. I can not, will not, rise alone.”
“What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.” ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
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