As I prepare for school in the mornings following the electoral results, all I worry about is the fate of minorities living in America.

Throughout the 512 days President-elect Donald Trump campaigned across the United States, he never showed sympathy toward discriminated minorities.

The way Trump promoted the construction of a border to block Mexican immigrants and complete his immigration policy to ban Muslim immigration are just a few of the many examples of his disregard for respect and equality. If Trump understood true equality, he wouldn’t dare utter these disrespectful comments in front of millions of Americans.

Trump’s election especially crushes minorities all around the world who want to start a new chapter in America. There are undocumented and documented immigrants who face the threat of returning to a country which does not have proper provisions and care. Also, there are families who might have to part ways from each other, according to numbers five and eight of Donald J. Trump’s 10 Point Plan to Put America First.

The way Trump sums up Syrian refugees coming to the United States as “The Trojan Horse,” according to an ABC News video on what Trump will do about the refugee crisis and immigration, makes it seem like the refugees themselves are indigenous people invading the country, and escaping from war. It is shameful how innocent refugees will not be welcomed when seeking asylum because of false assumptions.

According to The Washington Post, Trump’s statements accusing Mexicans of being rapists and drug dealers disrespects Mexican Americans. By saying so, Trump frames Mexicans as if all of them uphold these bad qualities.

From what he says, I believe more Muslims and Mexicans have to constantly watch out for each other in the simplest of situations to avoid getting beaten or threatened based off Trump’s bigotry. Muslims and Mexicans also feel like they have to be sorry for themselves for the havoc other people within their minorities commit. Ironically, the “criminals” Trump goes after is a mixup — he is dissing the minorities instead of the actual criminals.

Trump doesn’t take the time to get to know people for who they truly are. Instead, he wants to make a huge story about him being the victim and Muslims, Mexicans, blacks and women, etc. are getting in his way, according to his tweet wishing everyone a happy Sept. 11, even the “haters and losers.”

As a Muslim teenager, I am vulnerable to risks and threats about my identity. I wear the hijab. I am Palestinian  and I pray to Allah facing the corner of the wall. There is no need to immediately unfriend me because of those few little traits. Actions that speak louder than words, not the other way around because we can easily forgive each other from what we say. Yet, actions can’t be undone.

I also have relatives who live overseas, and some don’t even have visas yet to travel to America. If Trump  bans overseas immigration for Muslims, it would prevent me from seeing my relatives that would want to travel or live in America sometime in the future, which really hurts me.

Twisting versions of the truth and deeming a whole type of minority as a threat is misrepresenting the qualities of freedom of religion, because the First Amendment specifically says that Congress shall not break the laws of free exercise within religions. This is dangerous because America’s Congress is not adhering to the First Amendment when Americans disrespect others by expressing their disagreement for what they practice.

Instead of getting to know the minorities of America, more bigots are pushing them around through highly offensive comments. Trump’s bold statements are dividing all of our ethnicities and minorities in this country, not the minority Americans themselves who are trying to make a common living in America

Religious customs and freedoms should never get in the way of society’s politics and tragedies. The importance of collaborating with one another will help develop America as a whole. We must teach each other about the world in different ways for new opportunities in collaboration.

The way Donald Trump targets people without reason is not achieving the recognition America deserves from minorities worldwide. These types of comments are signals for people to stand up for what is right, and not continue to bystand as more minorities  are being discriminated against by the day.