to hands down an outpouring of public support has encouraged activist like elaine smit the roots of racism run deep here she says pointing to the state of confederate general robert e. lee still standing proud as just one example but for too long people of shannon's build didn't want to confront the issue schmidt tells me they wanted their peace and quiet white supremacy is part of the everyday fabric. of our political life our economic life the way policing is conducted against black people and you know so there's much more discussion of this you know even amongst people especially white people who were previously very kind of self-satisfied and thought that everything was fine. and see any very serious approaches still ancient and other local activists held a panel discussion to promote the importance of remaining vigilant. that