I was pulled over and given a ticket for one-hundred-and-thirty dollars.

ONE-HUNDRED-AND-THIRTY DOLLARS.

I capitalize for emphasis, not to yell.

And though I do not wish to make yell sounds, I do wish to have yell *IMPACT*

I was speeding.

It makes sense that I was pulled over.

But what doesn’t make sense is the fact that a one-hundred-and-thirty dollar withdrawal doesn’t impact everyone who speeds the same way.

And that bothers me something fierce. Something fierce. Something black hot and tarred as the road I was stopped on.

Does everyone driving on the same road, with the same speed limit, make the same?

Does everyone driving on the same road, with the same speed limit make the same withdrawal when pulled over?

Does the punishment for the violation of the road’s laws, its speed limit, serve as the same level of punishment for all?

Some people make $100 a day—some. A ticket could cost someone more than an entire day’s worth of labor.

Some people make thousands of dollars each second…

With this in mind, who do these laws actually punish? And who flies over the speed limit and virtually under the radar gun?

Where else does this imbalance exist? How long will this imbalance continue to exist?

How did these imbalances come into existence?

How have the powers that be kept us away from ever even asking these questions in mass? How long I’ve gone without asking these questions?

It wasn’t until I was pulled over and given a ticket for one-hundred-and-thirty dollars.

What now?

Pay.

Then what?

What then?

How much longer?

$130

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