Inauguration star Amanda Gorman claims security guard followed her home, called her ‘suspicious’

Amanda Gorman, the Harvard University graduate who wowed millions of viewers with her poem recital at President Biden’s inauguration, claims she was hounded by a security guard at her apartment complex on Friday.

The 22-year-old activist, who was 2017 National Youth Poet Laureate, added that the man referred to her as “suspicious.”

“A security guard tailed me on my walk home tonight. He demanded if I lived there because “you look suspicious,” tweeted Gorman on Friday. “I showed my keys and 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.”

Amanda Gorman recites her poem "The Hill We Climb" at President Biden's inauguration on Jan. 20. (Alex Wong/)

Minutes later, she followed up on Twitter with a more prescient message.

“In a sense, he was right. I AM A THREAT: a threat to injustice, to inequality, to ignorance,” wrote Gorman. “Anyone who speaks the truth and walks with hope is an obvious and fatal danger to the powers that be.”

Gorman delivered her composition “The Hill We Climb” in front of the Capitol on Jan 20. She completed the work on Jan. 7, the day after the deadly Washington insurrection.

“We the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl / descended from slaves and raised by a single mother / can dream of being president / only to find herself reciting for one,” one passage reads.

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Gorman was highlighted in Time magazine’s 100 Next List in February with a profile penned by “Hamilton” composer Lin-Manuel Miranda.

“If the hardest part of an artist’s job is to fully and honestly meet the moment, Amanda delivered a master class,” noted Miranda. “She spoke truth to power and embodied clear-eyed hope to a weary nation. She revealed us to ourselves.”