Amazing Grace History/"Amazing Grace" By Wintley Phipps

Wintley himself called me december of 2009 to pray with me over the phone and thanked me for helping touching lives through posting this video. It meant so much to me and i'd like to thank him.

THANK YOU MR. PHIPPS. GOD HAS USED YOU. IT WAS JUST WHAT I NEEDED AND ITS NICE TO KNOW THAT YOU TRULY ARE A KIND, GODLY MAN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR MINISTRY.
THIS IS MY MOST VIEWED VIDEO!! PERIOD!! YAY!! :)

NOTE TO ALL VIEWERS: many of you have missunderstood what he said. He did NOT say an african american wrote the words to amazing grace. He never argued that John Newton was not an englishmen, so stop pointing it out! He just said that John Newton was a slave trader and he was. Most of you are so concentrated on black and white, you are missing the point of the whole video!! He is trying to send out a message that God intended for all of us to be united. Weather you agree with the details or not, the message he is trying to send is a good one. So lighten up and take the hint!!

When I posted this video, I had absolutely no idea how popular it would become.

Anyone who thinks my intention is to "misinform" or to show any disregard to any race or culture obviously knows nothing about me.

This is a great video, and I love wintley phipps and so I decided to share. I did not expect it to be so huge!!

Of course we all agree that John Newton was in fact a slave trader. Thats the whole point. GRACE. That God can change the hardest of hearts within time if they'll listen. All the other stuff, is just stuff.

As far as not posting most of the ones that try to "correct" his views, it was simply to not cause a riot, the few times I have posted negative comments it caused a big debate between that person and my subscribers and especially considering this video has become so popular and so many people watch it, I wanted to avoid a big, long debate. That's it. So please dont be unkind to me and make allegations about my intentions to my subscribers when you are 100% percent wrong about me. I am anything but racist and I dont see how me posting this video would make me a racist, me posting this video means that i'm for unity between races. I have gotten into big long arguements with people multiple times because they made a racist remark. I am the opposite of racist. So please stop saying that because it's just not true and it hurts my feelings.

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[bantuck]

I strongly believed it is God's will that prevails! Wintley definitely did not plan out the result to be so overwhelming. All can clearly see it is His Holy Spirit which touches everyone's heart & soul, there & now. Except for those, that only have a selfish heart & devious mind would think otherwise to gain attention & self-popularity by opposing so. God bless you & have grace on your poor soul when your judgement comes. Have humility & love for others before saying things which "condemns" yo

[cribabetee]

O sweetie I'm so sorry that u were subjected to so many negative close minded prejudgemental (prejudice) folks. Its just a video! Negative comments in this regard is so outta context. Look at the congregation. People need 2 get a life! Its a great piece of history, and I for one thank you. I just learned something 2day that I didn't know yesterday. Thank you! Not to mention that he has a beautiful set of pipes! Great singer. Keeping it positive! Great job!

[PamalaCharlaxf48]

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[Teresa Sterling]

Sounds awesome here but is so much better in person.

[anesthetized8]

I'm studing pentatonic scalea on guitar right now, and this man helped me a lot i think it is D# minor pentatonic that he was talking abaut.

[aplatt65]

What evidence do you have of such a claim? "Probably"? Why "probably"? This is a shameful act of historical revisionism, done to tickle this sick person's afrocentric worldview. He's concocted a baseless event to justify his own regard for the song. His claim should be mocked. And don't say I've dragged race into it. He dragged race into it, when he implicitly accredited a whole group of people for the tune of a song, as far as we know they had nothing to do with writing or singing.

[MrMusicProphet]

I heard this song thousands of times but I can't stop listening to this guy sing it. Why do I have to cry like a baby every time he sings it?? I guess the passion makes all the difference.

[freemayo]

I never heard of this guy but I almost fell over when I heard his voice.

[David Eaton]

I think Mr. Phipp's music theory and music history is spotty at best. The pentatonic scale dates back to ancient China and perhaps beyond. If you play Amazing Grace starting on C# you get the tune on the black keys. Start the tune on C, you get the tune on all white keys. Start the tune on E, you get the tunes on both black and white keys. The pentatonic scale is common to Asia, Celtic, Appalachian and Magyar cultures. It's been around forever.

[mtweiss01]

I ran right to my piano. I know the pentatonic scale and thought the five black keys resembled Asian music!! Never made the connection to Negro spiritual music. Wow. Well done and a fantastic rendition.  Really moving and beautiful.