Of course we’re not cured of racism, any more than we can be cured of other innate propensities, good and bad.
One can hope that Charleston has served the purpose of disabusing everyone of the notion that the South is somehow uniquely more racist than other regions of the country.
What is happening there is happening because the South has melded the races in ways other regions just don’t have the abiity to understand. The commonality of Christianity is the pivotal difference.
The South looks less racist, to me, very much less, and one can only hope Charleston plays a role in changing the prevailing wisdom.
Odumbo has set the issue of racisim back all by himself. What has he ever said that would calm the issue down? NOTHING! Infact, he only contributes more fuel to the fire.