<br><div><aside class="gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el" aria-label="Video - Super Bowl, IMG Models are next steps for Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman"/><p class="gnt_ar_b_p"><a target="_blank" href="/story/entertainment/celebrities/2021/01/27/amanda-gorman-biden-inaugural-poet-super-bowl-modeling-books/4274353001/" rel="noopener" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a" class="gnt_ar_b_a">Amanda Gorman</a> is detailing her recent experience with racial profiling after capturing America's heart and making history as the<a target="_blank" href="/story/entertainment/celebrities/2021/01/20/read-amanda-gorman-inauguration-poem-the-hill-we-climb/4231769001/" rel="noopener" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a" class="gnt_ar_b_a"> youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history. </a></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">The poet took to Twitter Friday, just days ahead of her 23rd birthday on March 7, to share an encounter with a "security guard (who) tailed me on my walk home tonight."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">"He demanded if I lived there because 'you look suspicious,'" <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/TheAmandaGorman/status/1368010884111421440" rel="noopener" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a" class="gnt_ar_b_a">tweeted Gorman</a>, the Harvard graduate and National Youth Poet Laureate<a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/TheAmandaGorman/status/1368010884111421440" rel="noopener" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a" class="gnt_ar_b_a">. </a>"I showed my keys & buzzed myself into my building. He left, no apology."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Gorman said this latest incident of racism and discrimination highlights ever-present danger. "This is the reality of black girls: One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p"><strong>Amanda Gorman lands Time cover:</strong><a target="_blank" href="/story/entertainment/celebrities/2021/01/27/amanda-gorman-biden-inaugural-poet-super-bowl-modeling-books/4274353001/" rel="noopener" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a" class="gnt_ar_b_a">See what's next for viral inaugural poet</a></p><aside class="gnt_em gnt_em_tw" data-g-r="lazy" data-gl-method="loadTwitter" data-v-id="1368010884111421440" aria-label="Twitter Embed"/><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">"In a sense, he was right," Gorman added in another <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/TheAmandaGorman/status/1368016803553710082" rel="noopener" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a" class="gnt_ar_b_a">tweet.</a> "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."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Gorman experienced racial profiling just weeks after calling out "a contradictory society that can celebrate a black girl poet & also pepper spray a 9 yr old," referring to a <a target="_blank" href="/story/news/nation/2021/02/01/rochester-new-york-officers-suspended-pepper-spraying-incident-involving-girl/4346945001/" rel="noopener" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a" class="gnt_ar_b_a">Black girl who was pepper sprayed and handcuffed by police in Rochester, New York</a> in February. </p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">"Yes see me, but also see all other black girls who've been made invisible," Gorman <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/TheAmandaGorman/status/1361029304268648450" rel="noopener" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a" class="gnt_ar_b_a">tweeted </a>on Feb. 14. "I can not, will not, rise alone."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p"><strong>Meet Amanda Gorman</strong>, <a target="_blank" href="/story/entertainment/celebrities/2021/01/19/amanda-gorman-meet-youngest-inaugural-poet-u-s-history/4217887001/" rel="noopener" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a" class="gnt_ar_b_a">the youngest inaugural poet...</a></p></div> <style> .wrapper { text-align: center; } </style> <div class="wrapper"> <a class="button" href ="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2021/03/05/amanda-gorman-racially-profiled-security-guard/4604848001/">Read more <span>➤</span></a> </div>
