SUMMER IN THE 'CITY JOURNAL': The ever-useful "City Journal" has finally posted its summer issue, and Heather MacDonald is on the case. This story is about black police officers who don't think media charges of "racist police brutality" hold much water. And check this passage out:

The long-running race racket that has so distorted our national discourse shows no signs of letting up, but that is only because we have been listening to the wrong people. For every Al Sharpton or Eric Adams, there is at least one Carl McLaughlin or Tony Barksdale, who speak of American opportunity and fairness. There is no inherent reason why only the victimologists should be granted legitimacy as representatives of black interests, especially since so few of them are elected. Why not at least give equal time to a Wilbur Chapman, say, when he argues that the “biggest impediment to minority advancement is white guilt” and asserts that, whatever the remaining problems in American race relations, “the bottom line is: no one can stop me from getting my piece of the American dream”?

Just go read the whole issue. There's a ton of good, blog-worthy material in there.