In my rebellious youth I made my self a promise to never be ticketed for jaywalking. I would rather try to out-run the pigs and get detained for resisting arrest, than get a dumb-ass-ticket for not walking in a manner that the government wants me too.
I think it’s an incredible waste of municipal resources to fine pedestrians for crossing the street when they want, while violent crimes are happening elsewhere in the city. I have also long believed that since everyone already does it, it’s a way for power hungry pigs, to harass and discriminate. In my observations, I have never seen an elderly white woman get a ticket for jaywalking, but it’s always seems to be the Black or Latino male teenager who seems to get ticketed.
Well things have changed. I have become conservative in my old age. Today I crossed the street at a red light. While I was in the middle of the street a cop came around the corner. I was tired, carrying my tripod bag, camera bag, and computer bag for my trip to Puerto Rico; and I decided that today was the day I would be no longer willing to run from a cop. By time I got to the sidewalk I was prepared to try to beg the cop not to give me a ticket. Fortunately the cop didn’t even slow down and drove right past me (which still gives me the option to change my mind about getting old and fulfilling my promise).
I won’t stop jaywalking; I’ll just need to deal with the consequences. Then again, maybe there will be no consequences since I’m now an old man, and not Black or Latino…
But I’m still not white.
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