Caroline’s first question
When I told her the news this morning, she thought about it a moment and then asked:
“Am I going to have to worry about boys attacking me?”
Welcome to Trump’s America. Because a lot of boys in her school are Trump supporters, and her first concern was that, emboldened by their hero’s win, they would start acting out by physically assaulting females they knew to be Hillary supporters.
I’ve been involved in elections for over four decades and I have never seen the type of fear generated by a newly elected president as Trump’s win has done. I read an article on Facebook about a teacher who had a young black female student who asked, quite seriously, if a Trump election meant that she would become a slave.
Jesus Christ. What the hell has this country done?
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People are genuinely terrified. And it is not an overreaction - it is exactly what President Elect Trump and his flying monkeys meant to instill in minorities - and to empower his electorate to feel like they can do anything they like to anyone they hate.
I think though that Hillary Clinton's concession speech rallied a lot of people - so people aren't going to spend the next four years cowering in a corner, we'll keep fighting for what's right. I think there's still hope, even if it is a long long way away right now.
Hope Caroline is feeling better. No one deserves to have to face that kind of uncertainty.