I’ve lived on the Navajo Nation. The signs are very necessary. You absolutely need to know that you’re driving on roads that literally populated with drunks. It’s a horrible problem everywhere in the Navajo Nation.
It’s so bad that my wife looked up from delivering a baby to see the father drinking the hand sanitizer in the room.
Also, those signs were in place long before Obama, and they’ll be in place long after he’s gone.
I never saw a drunk driver the whole way. I understand that there are alcohol problems in the NA population but there are also crack problems in the black communities and meth problems in many white rural communities. Should we put signs up in those communities warning drivers of crack and meth users behind the wheel?
And if the problem is so bad...why only warn people while they are driving through the reservations? Surely the drunk Indians also drive on other roads around the areas as well. It just seemed ridiculous to me. I watch for drunk drivers all the time....I don’t need a sign to warn me. Just my opinion.