This whole episode illustrates what is wrong with this country. One individual commits a terrible crime in Charleston and the whole nation goes into hysteria. Crime, murder, happens everyday. This crime was committed by ONE individual. It is a local matter, for the local police, prosecutors and court. Everybody else needs to calm down and get on with their lives.
This crime has nothing to do with the rest of us. But these days everything is a trauma and a drama. Nobody outside of Charleston should be talking about this. This country has become so childish and so negative.
The way this has happened so quickly suggests a “last straw” situation to me. I think the symbols of the Confederacy have been hanging by a thread for a while now. The church shooting was what finally triggered the collapse but it could have been any similar event. It just seems like the last moves in a battle that was lost some time ago. In fact, now that I think about, that’s basically how the whole Obama presidency feels — like a mopping up operation.