Go ahead, wear a safety pin. But don’t expect people of color to care.

On Nov. 9, I woke up hopelessly weighted down on my mattress; the alarm clock rendered useless; the snooze button, not so much. It was no easy task to come up from under the covers knowing that the night before, the country elected as our 45th president none other than several-times bankrupt business mogul and sentient Cheeto puff, Donald J. Trump.

A large segment of this county’s population (many women, Muslims, Hispanics, Latinos, the LGBT community) is made up of citizens who felt the same weight. We are simply afraid of a Trump presidency and — possibly even more so — afraid of his following. His campaign and subsequent election managed to not only offend people of every nonwhite and non-straight demographic in America, but also make many of them feel even more unsafe here than they already did.

Each group has its own fears. We black people feel unsafe because we know when he says he’ll heal the poor, suffering black community by restoring law and order, he means exactly what that has always meant: more police presence and more prisons. For me, the mere utterance of his desire to resurrect stop and frisk laws triggers memories of being profiled, stopped and harassed for driving, walking or simply being while black.