Poet Amanda Gorman Details Racial Profiling Incident: ‘This Is the Reality of Black Girls’
“One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat,” the inauguration poet tweeted on FridayJ. Clara Chan | March 5, 2021 @ 6:09 PM Last Updated: March 5, 2021 @ 6:22 PM
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Amanda Gorman said she was tailed by a security guard on Friday who thought she looked “suspicious,” calling attention to the racist “reality” of how Black women and girls are treated.
“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,” Gorman tweeted. “This is the reality of black girls: One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat.”
my whole soul is in this.”
“It’s so nice to have a president with a soul again. The previous one sold his to the devil and didn’t even get Georgia out of the deal,” Colbert joked.
Colbert continued to recount the day’s events. For instance, he remarked that Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, look like “a presidential couple holding hands in a way that doesn’t look contractually mandated.”
Later, after playing a clip of Lady Gaga singing the national anthem, when she reached “and the flag was still there,” Colbert said: “And surprise! The flag was still there! Rarely is that song a cliffhanger, but just two weeks ago, in that spot, it was in danger of being replaced by a Rambo photoshop.” Colbert was of course referencing the violent, deadly seditious riot the previous president incited in a thankfully failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election.