NEW YORK (AP) – Amanda Gorman, the 22-year-old poet who won hearts in the possession of President Joe Biden, posted on social media that she was followed home by a security guard who demanded to know where she lived because she “looked suspicious. “
“I showed my keys and went into my building,” she tweeted about the incident on Friday night. “He left, with no excuses. This is the reality of black girls: one day you are called an icon, the next day a threat ”.
Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in the country, lives in Los Angeles, but did not specify where the meeting took place. Her spokeswoman did not immediately return an email on Saturday asking for additional comments.
The post was received with thousands of support messages on Twitter and Instagram. She followed her post with a second comment that read:
“In a sense, he was right. 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 constituted powers. A threat and proud. “
Gorman became an instant sensation on January 20, when she recited her poem, “The Hill We Climb”, on Biden’s oath.