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I believe people have grown a habit of selective memory when it suits them...
Amazing Grace
It has been heavily sanitised over the years. The art of selective memory is in absolute overdrive with Amazing Grace.
Is it an anthem?
Often used as one but it certainly should not be.
Written by John Newton...who as the selective memory states was wholy and totally against the slave trade.
Absolutely incorrect.
He worked as a crewman on slavers ships. He became a Christian after surviving a bad storm at sea in 1748 at the age of 23. He then went back to sea as a crewman on slavers ships, working up to becoming a captain of slavers ships and did not actually quit working on slavers ships until 1754 after suffering a stroke.
He continued to invest heavily in slaver shipping companies long after entering the Priesthood and being ordained as a Priest.
He wrote Amazing Grace in 1772, did still not question the morality of slavery and continued to invest in the trade until 1780.
He did not stop investing and only became an active anti-slave trade advocate until 1788 when it became almost fashionable (aka bandwagon) to protest against the trade and use of slaves.
In regard to "cancel culture" and history manipulation to suit a fashionable thought/bandwagon, it is nothing new. However, as with the perfectly respectable nickname of its time, Coo Li, the use of words, music and other every day things have been manipulated to offend where there has never been offence and to celebrate where no celebration should be made.
Social media definitely has a strong realtionship with history manipulation where the offending becomes fashionable and many of those who jump on those bandwagons only do it cos celebs do it...but neither they or the celebs that they follow rarely ever know or bother to research the truth behind what is allegedly offensive.
Amazing Grace
It has been heavily sanitised over the years. The art of selective memory is in absolute overdrive with Amazing Grace.
Is it an anthem?
Often used as one but it certainly should not be.
Written by John Newton...who as the selective memory states was wholy and totally against the slave trade.
Absolutely incorrect.
He worked as a crewman on slavers ships. He became a Christian after surviving a bad storm at sea in 1748 at the age of 23. He then went back to sea as a crewman on slavers ships, working up to becoming a captain of slavers ships and did not actually quit working on slavers ships until 1754 after suffering a stroke.
He continued to invest heavily in slaver shipping companies long after entering the Priesthood and being ordained as a Priest.
He wrote Amazing Grace in 1772, did still not question the morality of slavery and continued to invest in the trade until 1780.
He did not stop investing and only became an active anti-slave trade advocate until 1788 when it became almost fashionable (aka bandwagon) to protest against the trade and use of slaves.
In regard to "cancel culture" and history manipulation to suit a fashionable thought/bandwagon, it is nothing new. However, as with the perfectly respectable nickname of its time, Coo Li, the use of words, music and other every day things have been manipulated to offend where there has never been offence and to celebrate where no celebration should be made.
Social media definitely has a strong realtionship with history manipulation where the offending becomes fashionable and many of those who jump on those bandwagons only do it cos celebs do it...but neither they or the celebs that they follow rarely ever know or bother to research the truth behind what is allegedly offensive.