Dear Hillary,

I want to thank you for running for president. I want to thank you for trying to protect and raise awareness for ALL minorities. I want to thank you for trying to make our country more progressive and help it to finally move in the right direction. I want to thank you for fighting during the election with so much poise and dignity when that was not what you were given in return. I want to thank you for trying.

I apologize that we live in a country that was not prepared for a female president because, honestly, that's what it came down to. We live in a country where a woman makes $0.70 to a man's dollar. We live in a country where an unqualified man is deemed a better fit than a woman with a very large resume. We live in a country where a racist homophobic and misogynistic man was chosen to lead us and represent us to the rest of the world simply because he was a man.

I want to apologize for the fact that we live in a country where a man who openly sexually assaults women was deemed acceptable to be our president. We live in a country where that is what we want our children to know. We live in a country where, as a victim of sexual assault, I feel as though I was told that what I went through wasn't that bad because we elected an assaulter to be the president.

I want to apologize because we live in a country where it is okay for minorities to fear for their lives, simply because they are minorities. We live in a country where on November 9th, I was scared to leave my apartment because I was a woman. We live in a country where the amount of racist and homophobic tendencies have already escalated since Tuesday.

Hillary, I want to apologize because you were what we needed and not what we got. We will not let you down. We are going to join together and we are going to become as strong as ever. We will not let this man destroy us. We will stick together and not let our fellow friends fall. We are all that we have now and that will have to be enough.