> After all, these beacons not mandatory - they're only needed if you want to use the roads as a pedestrian or cyclist. If you don't, you can drive your car like any real (read: non-poor) American, or use a taxi or bus.
You just wrote two things:
1) Pedestrians and bike riders should wear beacons or aren't "real Americans".
Yes, that's what I meant to write. Note that those are not my personal opinions (as a pedestrian, cyclist, and non-car-owner, I'd like to think I'm as real an American as anyone else), but I do think they are common opinions in America.
You just wrote two things:
1) Pedestrians and bike riders should wear beacons or aren't "real Americans".
2) Poor Americans aren't "real Americans".
Are those what you meant to write?