MATT MARGOLIS: Associated Press Changes Writing Style to Capitalize ‘b’ in Black in Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Contexts.

‘THE WHOLE COUNTRY WILL BE MINNEAPOLIS:’ Trump warns of chaos if Biden elected.

MAKE THEM PAY: Professor sues university for $7.9 million for destroying reputation with baseless grades-for-sex investigation.

YES, THAT WOULD BE HILARIOUS: Trump Should Call Rallies “PROTESTS” To Show COVID-Shaming Hypocrisy.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Eskimo Pies to drop ‘derogatory’ name over racial insensitivity.

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WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF POLICE MISCONDUCT? San Francisco Police Were Ordered To Turn Off Body Cameras in Raid on Journalist’s Home.

BUT OF COURSE: Harvard Prof Apologizes After Suggesting Biden Should Pick VP Based on Accomplishments.

JOHN MCWHORTER: Racist Police Violence Reconsidered.

Racist bias may well play a role in these statistical discrepancies in treatment. Certainly, this perception was as central to the protests in Ferguson, Missouri as the shooting of Michael Brown. If, upon close examination, that turns out to be the case, then this must obviously be addressed. The acrid relationship with police is among the main reasons that so many black people feel like aliens in their own nation. If a new generation of black people could grow up without the sense that the cops are their enemy, America would turn a corner on race and finally break its holding pattern.

Police officers are too often overarmed, undertrained, and low on empathy. Some police officers are surely racist and act like it. But it does not follow that white cops routinely kill black people in tense situations out of racist animus. This scenario may seem plausible—I believed it until only a few years ago. But there are times when facts are counterintuitive, and it is important to get the facts right and to analyze them with clear eyes and a clear mind (the enlightening work of criminologist and ex-cop Peter Moskos is helpful in this regard). Rhetoric has a way of straying from reality, and to get where we all want to go, it is reality that we must address.

Read the whole thing.

GOOD: 1,000 Black gun owners plan pro-Second Amendment walk in Oklahoma. If I were there, I’d proudly march with them.

More here. “Oklahoma City Police Capt. Larry Withrow said his office was unaware of a planned demonstration, but reiterated that the group is within its rights to peacefully assemble with firearms present.”

ROGER KIMBALL: Thank goodness for Hillsdale College: At least one institution is standing firm against the mob of kneelers and capitulators and sentimentalizers.

JOHN YOO: I DIDN’T SUPPORT TRUMP IN 2016 AND “BOY, WAS I WRONG.” Berkeley Law professor: Trump saving the Constitution, ‘his greatest service.’

“My study of the separation of powers, and my time in the three branches of government, led me to worry that Trump would test, evade, or even violate the Constitution,” he added in his upcoming book, Defender in Chief.

Now, as Trump campaigns for reelection on a platform of tough executive orders, expanding conservative voices on federal courts, and beating back impeachment, Yoo is telling a different story.

“Boy was I wrong. Trump campaigns like a populist but governs like a constitutional conservative,” he wrote in the book due next month and published by All Points Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group. The publisher provided Secrets with an advance copy of the book set for release July 28.

Over the course of 300 pages comparing Trump moves to the wishes of the Founding Fathers, Yoo discovered that despite constant criticism that Trump was destroying the Constitution, he was actually propping it up and using it to defend the presidency.

“Rather than a sword, the Constitution has become Trump’s shield. Even though he had not had any previous government or military office or public policy experience, Trump has defended the constitutional text, structure, and design for an independent, vigorous executive,” writes Yoo.

I think more people who didn’t vote for Trump are switching to supporters than the other way around.

I EAGERLY AWAIT PAUL KRUGMAN’S STERN CONDEMNATION OF THIS ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC: Susan Rice Says Trump Supporters Belong In ‘Trash Heap Of History.’

DON SURBER: USA Today should apologize to Wisconsin.

Newsweek reported, “In Wisconsin, One of the First States to Reopen, Corona Virus Cases Are Declining.”

That’s nice, but Wisconsin did not re-open. Its Supreme Court refused to let it fascist Democrat governor shutter the state.

First the governor tried to use covid-19 to cancel the primary election and replace it with a mail-in substitute.

The court read the state constitution and state law, and told him to pound salt. The election went on as planned. Democrats predicted death, destruction, and carnage.

Read the whole thing.

TIME FOR DEREGULATION IN PENNSYLVANIA: “The many failures of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) during the coronavirus crisis taught us one thing: It’s time to unleash the power of the private sector.”

DEMOCRATS AIRBRUSH THEIR HISTORY: Pelosi Removes Portraits of Former Dem. House Speakers Tied to the Confederacy.

Related: The Confederate-Monument Controversy is a Democrat-vs-Democrat Question.

BAD NEWS FOR GUN CONTROLLERS: African-American Gun Group Saw Membership Surge After George Floyd Killing.

WHY THE RIGHT FORESAW THE STATUES COMING DOWN:

When Donald Trump wondered whether it would be “George Washington next week” and “Thomas Jefferson the week after,” he was treated to haughty and dismissive dispatches in the mainstream press explaining why these Founders were more than just their proximity to slavery. These were valuable missives, but Trump wasn’t the right audience. They should have been directed at the activists who have taken their campus-based maximalism with them into the workforce.

The failure on the part of polite liberal opinion makers to anticipate this attack on America’s foundations is a failure of imagination and an act of hubris. They assumed they spoke for the mob when it was the mob that spoke for them. But their revisionism was only ever as myopic as the South’s hidebound dead-enders.

Thomas Jefferson’s relationship with slavery is condemnable, but his tolerance of it was conflicted. He was not just the author of one of the most expansive definitions of what constitutes human liberty up to that point in history—a radical document that paved a paradigmatic road to Emancipation—he practiced this philosophy. Jefferson was the author of a law that served as the basis for the first anti-slavery legislation in America: the 1787 Northwest Ordinance. In a message to Congress as president, he wrote that “the morality, the reputation, and the best of our country have long been eager to proscribe” slavery. Like men of his time and many generations after, Jefferson regarded blacks as inferior. And yet, he resented the “unremitting despotism” and “degrading submissions” American slaves endured.

Washington—the American Cincinnatus who established the customs that preserved the presidency’s diminutive constitutional status—is equally undeserving of the crowd’s unmitigated scorn. He was a slave owner and a brutal one at that. But he, like all his successors in the White House until Lincoln, subordinated the issue of slavery to the imperative of maintaining the Union. Those who regard any compromise in service to the preservation of the Constitution as unacceptable must also reconcile how that document enabled the abolition of the international slave trade, involuntary servitude, and the equal protection clause upon which almost all modern anti-discrimination law is based. To square these competing facts is to muddy a simpler narrative preferred by our enlightened betters in which history’s actors are rendered one-dimensional stick figures. But that isn’t sophistication, and it boils down the complicated conduct of human events to a childish morality play.

Related: Bill de Blasio’s wife to decide fate of NYC statues of Washington, Jefferson.

SYSTEMIC RACISM: The Lockdowns Crushed Minority-Owned Businesses the Most.