Jaywalking is now legal in New York City because city officials have legalized it. Why? They claimed that too many ethnic minorities were getting jaywalking tickets.
Race grifters think that any time there is a racial disparity, it MUST be because of discrimination. In the words of neoracist author Ibram X. Kendi: “When I see racial disparities, I see racism.”
Could it possibly be that ethnic minorities receive more jaywalking tickets because they jaywalk more?
This is the kind of policy that hurts minorities more than it helps. In Chicago, liberal politicians proposed removing speeding cameras because Black and Hispanics drivers were getting more traffic tickets than other drivers. How can a speeding camera be racist? In fact, speeding cameras lowered the incidents of crashes in the neighborhoods that had them but neoracists still want to remove safety barriers in minority neighborhoods. That is truly idiotic.
The same story inevitably follows with jaywalking. Jaywalking is dangerous and yet the city will refrain from disincentivizing it through tickets because of…racism. But what if ethnic minorities were getting more jaywalking tickets because they jaywalk more? This means that they will now be at increased risk of getting hit by cars.
