Dear Mr. President (soon to be),

As I am typing this, I hear the national anthem playing in the room beside me, and writing this letter has never seemed so right. I am a 19-year-old white female. I am attending my first year of college and working part-time. I was overjoyed to be participating in my first presidential election. Regardless of how messy the binary-system is, or how outdated the electoral college is, I got to vote.

Although I thought your campaign was a joke, you became the Republican candidate and, by electoral college, the President of the United States of America.

I am disappointed in you, Mr. President. You raised awareness about your campaign by shouting profanity and mocking reporters, women, immigrants, the disabled...

We're scared, Mr. President. The people in America are scared.

As I watched Hillary Clinton's concession speech, I looked around the room at the other college students watching with me. Some were crying, some looked scared, and some looked happy.

They were crying, not because Hillary lost -- but because you won.

I looked around the room at my friends. Friends from different religions, races, ethnicities, sexes, and sexualities.

The people are angry, Mr. President. They are angry that someone so openly hateful is now in charge of our nation.

Please remember the little girl dressing for her first day of Kindergarten, excited to get on the bus as her parents tell her "you can be anything you want, sweetheart." Please remember this the next time you call a young female reporter a "bitch."

Please remember the parents, who knew beforehand that their child was going to be born with a disability, that work so hard to put their child in the best care facilities. Please remember the parents the next time you flail your hands around and talk excitedly to mock another citizen.

Please remember the muslim, who wishes not to bomb our cities and kill authority, but to worship the way the wish. Please remember that.

Please remember the day the Supreme Court ruled gay marriage legal, as thousands kissed their partners knowing that their government finally supported their right to be in love. Please remember that while your Vice President hopes to use shock therapy on your LGBTQ citizens to "correct them".

Please remember the last time this nation was divided because of race. Remember all of the Americans, dying and killing other Americans, because people of color deserved to be free. Please remember this.

Please remember the children, lying bloody and parentless, after their parents had died because of a war-torn country. Please remember these children did not ask to be brought to the U.S. because of their homeland being torn apart. Please remember that these people are people, too.

Please remember the future of America, people ages 18-24, did not support you first, but they are willing to give you a shot.

Please remember the old, the poor, the weak, and the children who are watching you, hoping you will make America great again.

Please remember that a wall can be used not only to keep people out, but to keep people apart.

If you run this country how you campaigned, we will be in flames by this time next year.

I hope it was for publicity, Mr. President. I hope you do not run our country with the same fiery hatred you ran your campaign with. I hope you remember all of the people who died for our flag -- they died not for a white, male America, but for a free America. An America that included and welcomed all groups of people, with all sorts of backgrounds and ideas and religions and sexes and sexualities.

We gave you the American vote, Mr. President. Please return the favor by remembering we ARE the land of the free, and the home of the brave.