I want to hug that girl and tell her everything is going to be alright. We can't promise her that right now.

Our future depends on it!

I am with you.

I have a cousin, and a cousin's cousin, with whom I have given up. They may not be directly racist, but they each love them some Trump, who is, needless to say, blatantly so. I'm not on FB, gladly, nor on Twitter, so I don't get electronic horse poo. Their perspective is alien to mine. They are fans of Rupert Murdoch's gaslighting, suck it up along with the Kool-Aid as a chaser.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” - Issac Asimov This concept of Asimov's may play a good deal into the situation.
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into," has been attributed to Johnathan Swift

Ain't that the Ugly truth of Murikkka..