On the run in poor neighborhoods or the curious totalitarian nature of poor minority america

Not only is there little private industry in minority neighborhoods, the drug war has resulted in an explosion of direct government supervision and covert government observation of its citizenry.

For all the recent talk of a surveillance state created through the National Security Agency, an oppressive low-tech surveillance state has been in place for decades — and it’s been directed at many of America’s poorest people.

It's like a chocolate East Berlin.

NYT has more about how our inner cities are being 'saved'. The more powerful the super state gets the more actual human beings shrink in insignificance. This is called humanism.