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President Obama leads a congregation in "Amazing Grace" at the funeral of the Revernd Clementa Pinckeny in Charleston, 2015
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Dinesh said:

From at least the 1940s it was performed in concert by black civil rights singers like Mahalia Jckson, and it was sung as an assertion of shared purpose by thousands, on all faiths, as they marched protesting for civil rights in the Southern states in the 1940s and 1960s. This may seem a long way from sixteenth-century Germany, but the name of the leaders of those civil rights protests was, not coincidentally, Dr. Martin Luther King. Today, ‘Amazing Grace’ is one of the few songs whose words Americans of all generations are likely to know by heart. In Charleston, South Carolina, in 2915, the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who had trained in a Lutheran seminary, was killed in a racially motivated mass shooting. Delivering the oration at his funeral, President Obama startled the huge crown by beginning to sing – alone – “Amazing Grace’. The response was immediate, within a minute, everybody was singing with him. . . . . Page 150
13 days ago

Dinesh said:

LIVING WITH THE GODS
13 days ago ( translate )
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