Mr. Trump,

We are a country of progress. We are built on the foundation of equality and freedom. That is not what you represent.

You are a rich, white (personally, I think you look like a Cheeto, but that's just me), straight, cisgendered businessman. By winning this election, you have gotten away with speaking of sexual abuse, you have gotten away with saying you'd sleep with your daughter, you have gotten away with calling Mexicans rapists and criminals, and so many more painful things. You have never suffered at the hands of inequality and lack of freedoms and rights because of your skin color, sexual orientation, or gender.

I never have either, to be honest. I'm a middle-class, white, straight, cisgendered woman, but that doesn't mean I can't feel for those that have suffered. This country is diverse. I have grown up around Hispanics, Muslims, African Americans, homosexuals, and transgendered people. I have created relationships with them and lived my life on the premise that they all deserve what I have. But you don't seem to think so. Why is that? America is an equal opportunity for everyone, isn't it?

Maybe you won't be able to hurt them while you're in office (because let's be real, even though republicans have the House and the Senate, some of them still despise you), but it's not the physical outcome that I'm afraid of. It's the fact that we, as a country, have stepped back so far to elect someone like you.

And you won this election fair and square, I won't argue that, but I have never seen so many people afraid for their lives than I am now. Somehow, you won the electoral votes, but not the popular votes. You said it yourself:

But I guess you aren't complaining now, are you?

Regardless, we, as Americans, has to face the facts - you're our next president. Some of us hate you, and are afraid, which is completely warranted. We should be terrified. So many of the awful, demeaning, racist things you've said have left us unsure of where we stand.

Some of us are excited and happy for this radical change, and that's okay too. Not everyone that voted for you even believes in every little thing you've said (just like not everyone that voted for Clinton believes in everything she said).

In the end, we are all humans, Mr. Trump. Nobody is a lesser being because of something we can't control whether that be our sexual orientation, gender, or skin color. We're all equals. Keep that in mind.