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1/ This is SUCH a good piece by @ProfFortner on the elite hijacking of the police-reform discussion. I found myself wanting to quote almost every line, especially in the back half. https://www.city-journal.org/hearing-what-black-voices-really-say-about-police
2/ "We are witnessing the embourgeoisement of racial politics. A reading public not long ago captivated by Hillbilly Elegy is now obsessed with White Fragility. Each day, college-educated millennials race to social media to practice the rituals of wokeness[.]"
3/ "Elite institutions have committed themselves to a theory, program, and performance increasingly detached from the aspirations, worldviews, and everyday concerns of millions of blacks."
4/I interviewed the author forever ago when his book The Black Silent Majority came out. (In grad school I actually wrote some likely-long-disappeared term paper about how I didn't think his work conflicted with Alexander's as much as it is portrayed to.) https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/09/black-activists-helped-launch-the-drug-war.html
5/ And in my newsletter (paid post, unfortunately) I showed how the Times recent coverage of "abolish/defund the police" managed to quote individual black people but not make a single reference to zoomed-out black public opinion: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/vital-dividing-lines-based-on-class
6/ Also, here's a free post from 2019 where I talked about this tendency of progressives to talk over the marginalized groups they claim to be speaking for. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-risk-of-progressives-talking
