I don’t know if this is the answer you are looking for, but I think Charleston, SC, and the shooting’s aftermath, was a significant emotional event for this country. A possible turning point. Effects are subliminal, because no one knows how to begin to talk about it.
Surreal. White man masacres innocent blacks in church. Black community insisted on being Christian first, and black second. Blacks and whites came together in southern city. Race grievance industry told to stay away. At once sad, astounding and beautiful.
Usual race-mongers disoriented, mystified, muted.
Shootings stopped.
You know it’s interesting, now that I think of it, the contrast in reactions between that shooting and the Treyvon/Michael Brown cases. Of all situations where innocence was clearly attacked, that was it. Yet the rioters run rampant over people who were preying on their own neighbors. Very interesting. Christ was not a part of the equation where riots erupted. Still it makes me shake my head at who people justify getting riled up over.