If you can't afford a speeding ticket then don't speed.
You know, in dismissing all of your straw men I didn’t address the one non-straw man thing you said. So I’ll do that now:
When it comes to laws, there are several ways of looking at them. One is to say that following the law is a moral issue - doesn’t matter what it is, if you follow it you are good and if you don’t, well, whatever bad happens is your own fault. The problem with this view is that it’s tautological- obeying a law is good because because it’s good to obey laws, and the punishment for breaking a law is good because someone broke a law. Good has no meaning.
Another way of looking at laws is to think of them as tools for trying to make life better for as many people as we possible. In this way of looking at it, a law, and a punishment, fit into a larger context of what enhances life, liberty, and all that stuff we say we like.
So in the case of speeding, you have the harm that the crime causes...generally low which is why everyone does it, but it can contribute to bad outcomes so we want enough of a punishment to deter the behavior. There is no moral issue at play...speeding by itself harms nobody. And you have the harm that the punishment causes, which should also be low.
So let’s say you are driving along a highway exactly the speed of traffic and a cop decides to give you a ticket. Because everyone is speeding, and it’s just a question of who gets the ticket this time.
When you get caught speeding you might end up with a $150 fine. Result? Maybe you can’t buy some ammo this week. No real harm, but it’s a deterrent. You ask for traffic school, complete that online, and it doesn’t even affect your insurance.
Now how about someone who doesn’t have $150? Skip all of your excuses for blaming them and just look objectively at what happens. They can’t pay, so they end up in jail. They lose their job. They can’t afford insurance any more so the car can’t be driven. Now when they get out of jail they have a whole bunch of additional problems: they don’t have transportation to get to jobs, future court appearances, etc., they don’t have income so they can’t afford their home. They aren’t going to qualify for unemployment no the like so no safety net to keep them from being evicted. Now they are livingin their car that they can’t insure, register, or legally drive, and if they get pulled over again they will be in even worse shape.
So that person, doing exactly the same thing as you, has their life ruined because they don’t have money.
Now let’s address the “don’t speed” thing. Search around and you will find a video of someone getting pulled over and issued a warning for driving 65 in a 70 zone. You can bet that the cop there thought they had found someone who can’t afford to get pulled over. So people are in a “damned if they do, damned if they don’t” situation. If they don’t match traffic they get pulled over. If they do match traffic they get pulled over. Either way there is a chance that they’ll receive a punishment that can destroy their life...for doing exactly the same thing as everyone else in the road.
That’s exactly the sort of thing that ends up fitting into a “racism” narrative. And it isn’t racism per se...it’s just general injustice...but when poverty correlated with race it is easy to think it is racism and people who do so aren’t necessarily wrong.