I've stayed away from this topic here and on other SM, as I don't have much to add. It's all horrific and terribly sad. Truly hoping the tearing and fracturing functions like it does in muscle tissue and binds us together stronger than before. I can only hope.
The one thing I did want to point out is that now, one thing this event has all but guaranteed, is that every prominent Confederate monument of every sort is going to come down. They protested to keep it up, but now they've shot themselves in the foot and too much national ire is directed at these statues. Had they kept quiet and not said anything there's a chance this whole episode would have slipped by and quite a few statues would have remained standing. But now, it just seems like a guarantee that they'll all come down.