I highly resent that fact that people think basic traffic and vehicle registration laws should not be applied to them because of financial hardship. I struggle to pay my annual registration and keep the required insurance covered on my hoopty. It is a burden and it is difficult. I am the working poor. and yet I do it. Why? Because my car is necessary in getting my kids to school and back and to my J O B between.
No vehicle, no private school for teen daughter, no job, no money, and right onto the public aid dole I go. Sometimes it is very discouraging to see carts full of expensive food items leaving the store, paid for by SNAP and then being loaded into a brand spanking new model cadillac escalade with gold rims and an expensive aftermarket stereo system blaring. It causes me to feel great resentment. So I think its unreasonable to expect that poor people should get a bye on such basic rules of vehicle ownership and maintaining their street legality.
Maybe so many more blacks in the area are pulled over because more of them let their sticker/registrations lapse. Keep that chit current as the laws require and there will be no pull over to which added charges of driving without license, marijuana in the vehicle, lack of basic minimum required insurance coverage and previously issued warrants won't come to light. It's common dang sense and as a member of the working poor who has a really tough time keeping those things current for my own vehicle, but still somehow manages I don't feel any sympathy with those who simply opt not to because their priorities are different and out of skew IMO.
The idea of I am poor and so therefore I shouldn't have to follow the same rules BS does not fly with me a member of the "poor".
