Poet Amanda Gorman says she was profiled by security outside her apartment

"He demanded if I lived there because 'you look suspicious.' I showed my keys & buzzed myself into my building," she wrote."He left, no apology. This is the reality of black girls: One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat."

Gorman said that, in a sense, the guard 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," she tweeted. The 22-year-old posted the experience on Twitter as a response to a tweet from February highlighting a"We live in a contradictory society that can celebrate a black girl poet & also

," Gorman wrote last month."Yes see me, but also see all other black girls who've been made invisible. I can not, will not, rise alone."

The man was doing his job. But because this person feels entitled its racist. Remember that when he loses his job and you are left to fend for yourself. Obviously if she lives somewhere that needs security.

POC KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PROTECTION AND PROFILING! WE LIVE IT DAILY! We CONSTANTLY get PROFILED and hope for PROTECTION that sometimes never come or turn into PROSECUTION! Either way WE LOSE!

Lemme guess, she wants to be paid. Be glad you have security you ungrateful witch

So wrong. Cops need re- education

No shit?

Amanda Smollet? How does she know , did she ask him?

People need to wake-up!

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I'm so sorry.

Do not assume. Treat this as a strange man following a young woman and accosting her on the street. RUN Get into a safe place, take a photo and call friends, neighbors, family. This is not OK. No one owes strangers proof of residence much less their ID.

Nothing else to do. People can’t even walk home with being followed by paranoid people!

Facts dont matter. This is her truth.

Like this sucks but also there is zero evidence that it was racially motivated so 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Disgusting

As a reminder, unfortunately anyone that's black or other minorities for that matter are racially profiled out of the womb!! This is as we know it systematic racism, that's from the onset in America embedded in the heart and mind of white supremacists.

That's outrageous(even coming from NBC news)!

The was minor, the feeling that you are burden with the stigma of being under suspicion bc of skin melanin is psychologically damaging. In my youth when I was frequently harassed by police, I’d respond: what did I do. I was brainwashed to feel guilty for not being where I belong

“Trumps March”

All I ask my fellow Americans, Republican and Democrat remember this as America goes through the pandemic and hold these Republican Senators accountable! People are starving, losing their homes and dying from the pandemic and they are playing political games!

A spanish security guard did that to me when I was in California. There was a soccer ball over a gate that I looked at and thought about retrieving to throw on the soccer field for whoever lost it and he continued to stare at me and follow me accusing me of wanting to steal it.

Nothing surprises me anymore as pertains to racism.

That's a lie. But good try.

In this generation and world we live in, if I was him I would do everyone I didn't recognize entering my building the same way if I was SECURITY. Rapist, kidnappers, burglars, you should be aware and cautious of the people around you this world wild. I don't believe the broad!

I am so sorry American IDIOTS!

Welcome to the reality of Americas coroporations culture brought and paid for. The pandemic has allowed me to see for myself why we are divided. When the money dries up the pain will go away.

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FAFO

She's not an icon.

Stfu

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