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

kaolincash:

tkdancer:

commie-saskia:

languageoclock:

you-had-me-at-e-flat-major:

watercolorsheep:

catchingjinns:

spirited-simmer:

my-name-is-long:

renaissavce:

roumanian:

english: coconut oil

french: 🙂

english: oh boy

french: oil of the nut of the coco

IM CRYINGNFN

english: ninety-nine

french: 🙂

english: oh no

french: four-twenty-ten-nine

english: potato

french: 🙂

english: oh geez

french: apple of the earth

french: papillon

english: 🙂

french: don’t

english: beurremouche

French: pamplemousse
English: 🙂
French: pls no
English: raisinfruit

english: squirrel

german: 🙂

english: oh dear

german: oak croissant

english: helicopter

german: 🙂

english: uh oh

german: lifting screwdriver

english: toes

spanish: 🙂

english: no don’t

spanish

: fingers of the feet

leave fingers of the feet out of this

bosnian: ananas
croatian: ananas
czech: ananas
danish: ananas
dutch: ananas
finnish: ananas
french: ananas
german: ananas
icelandic: ananas
italian: ananas
maltese: ananas
norwegian: ananas
polish: ananas
romanian: ananas
slovenian: ananas
swedish: ananas
english: 🙂
spanish: do it
english: pineapple

English: Roller coaster

Spanish: seriously?

English: Think you can do better?

Spanish: Russian mountain.