On the campaign trail last year, Donald Trump painted an extremely bleak picture with his pitch to people of color. His picture of life for minorities was Hobbesian – nasty, brutish and short. In Trump’s America, the residents of inner cities live in quiet desperation.

“Our government has failed our African American friends, our Hispanic friends and the people of our country,” he said. “The Democrats have failed completely in the inner cities. For those hurting the most who have been failed and failed by their politician-year after year, failure after failure, worse numbers after worse numbers. Poverty. Rejection. Horrible education. No Housing, no homes no ownership. Crime at levels that nobody has seen. You can go to war zones in countries that we are fighting and it’s safer than living in some of inner cities that are run by the Democrats.”