Dr. Gillespie returned to PC
Dr. Gillespie returned to PC to deliver his public lecture, “The Charleston Tragedy and Dylann Roof Trial,” to a crowded Kuhne Auditorium in Neville Hall. Gillespie spoke about the legacy of the Charleston tragedy.
“I think there was something good that came out of this particular event,” Gillespie said. “It was that what Dylann Roof intended to do in South Carolina was completely confounded.”
Gillespie mentioned the gatherings in African-American churches in Charleston after the tragedy and the time more than 10 thousand people in Charleston formed a “unity chain” by holding hands across the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge.
Gillespie said South Carolinians came together after the tragedy too. He pointed out the joint consensus of democrats and republicans to remove the confederate flag from the State House grounds and that church bells that rang across the state after the tragedy.
“You could make the case that in some ways the arc of the moral universe was positively affected by this very negative act, far to the contrary of what Dylann Roof intended to happen,” Gillespie said.
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