Amanda Gorman says she was followed by security guard who said she looked 'suspicious'

[Soph0571]

Amanda Gorman, the poet who won acclaim for her performance at Joe Biden’s inauguration, has told of being followed home and accosted by a security guard who allegedly claimed she looked suspicious.

She said the incident, on Friday night, was emblematic of “the reality of black girls” in the US, in which “one day you’re called an icon” but the next day considered a threat.

She said in a following tweet: “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.”

[link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/06/amanda-gorman-says-she-was-followed-by-security-guard-who-said-she-looked-suspicious|]
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A threat? Good grief. A brisk wind would blow her away...
Poeting while black is a threat to shite supremacy bollocks though, so there is that

[MiHale]

1. In the human race...

Humans are losing.

[Maraya1969]

2. I think that cop should be punished somehow. You can't just follow someone

because they look, "suspicious"! Unless someone looks like a photo of a recent crime or wanted person there is no generic "suspicious"

[Cosmo Blues]

3. The House passed

The George Floyd Act, a criminal justice/police Reform Bill which does address racial profiling

[Tommymac]

4. Hope she writes a verse about this incident.

The more of this racist profiling crap is put on record the more weight there is to help change it on a societal level.

[ananda]

5. This shows just how fucked and dystopian our society is!

Arrgghhh

[Blue Owl]

6. What's really fucked up is that meanwhile...

There's a group of domestic terrorist criminals trying to destroy our democracy right out in the open -- shouldn't the security guard be more concerned about that???

[Hestia]

7. It's not always about race -- go shopping with a Pagan, who looks like Gimli, shaved his head

but would let his ear hair grow out and would style that hair to make his ears pointed and elfish, who on w/e would wear his MC Colors and a utili-kilt. On weekends the four of us would go junk-tiquing and would be followed booth by booth in the entire store, because we just had to be thieves. We're Pagans not Travellers! The employees would tag-team following us. At first it was annoying but then the 4 of us would split and it became funny and extremely obvious when the employees had to split up to follow us. This happened everywhere except the Latino section of town where they were only interested in getting us to buy something.