Looking at the Larger Picture with #Charleston

Is this really so isolated an event as some want to pass it off or is there larger a picture we need to look at?  (I think there is much we need to learn and to take action on. (so #2))

From the NY Times:

From Ferguson to Charleston and Beyond, Anguish About Race Keeps Building 

What is Whiteness?

Love and Terror in the Black Church

From the Daily Beast: 

We Need To Talk About White Culture

SPLC:

Charleston shooter’s manifesto reveals hate group helped to radicalize him