cracked:

I want to say that I understand your sentiment that everything will be okay. Because it feels the way it does when your team loses a championship – you’re devastated, but you’ll be back to cheer them on next year. But this is more than that. Believe me, I was crushed in 2013 when the Niners lost the Superbowl. (If it wasn’t for that power outage …) For the people who say everything is going to be okay, this election feels like a championship loss. The pain and grief are real, but you know the draft is only months away and the new season will bring new hope. For some of us, it’s not just watching your team lose a game; it’s more like finding out your team lost the game, and then finding out that the game was just a distraction created to keep you occupied while someone broke into your house, kidnapped your family, and burned everything down.

We are afraid. We are very afraid. We don’t want to let fear control us, so we are trying to be strong. But it’s very difficult to hear a white person say everything is going to be okay, because we already know it’s going to be okay for you. Hearing that conservatives were upset when Obama won the 2008 election is not helpful. In 2008, the (public) fears about Obama’s presidency were that he was going to take away guns and that he might be a “Muslim.” All these fears were projections, not actual promises Obama made. But last night, we elected a president who has openly campaigned to build a wall around the country. He has encouraged his supporters to use physical violence against minorities. He posted an Anti-Semitic meme featuring Hillary Clinton, and courted the support of white nationalists and the alt-right. This is not the same thing at all.

Dear White Friends: Stop Saying Everything Is Going To Be Ok