Over the weekend, LA native Amanda Gorman tweeted about allegedly being racially profiled when she was walking to her own home.
On Friday Gorman wrote on Twitter "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. This is the reality of black girls: One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat."
Gorman, who attended Harvard University and is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, gained national attention when she recited "The Hills We Climb" at Joe Biden's Inauguration in January. After lighting up Inauguration Day she went on to recite another original poem at the Super Bowl preshow in February.
She followed up the tweet with another writing "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."
The next day, Saturday, Gorman thanked Twitter for the "outpouring of support."
She said "It won't change the truth of what happened, and continues to happen to Black Americans, but it reassures me of what I already know: There is always far more good in this world than bad. Love, Amanda."