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Amazing Grace

Sisters and brothers, here's the original author of the famous church song "Amazing Grace." Amazing Grace is a song that is sung in every "Black" church that I know of. Plus, a few white churches here in Mobile, Alabama. A certain part of the song was high lighted when it was pointed out to me and that part of the song was "saved a wretch like me."  No one that I know is a wretch. Think about it. How many of you consider yourselves and call yourselves a wretch? Google's definition of the word wretch is "an unfortunate or unhappy person." As melanated people we breath life into the words that we speak. Unfortunately, a lot of us say things without thinking first. The New Webster's Dictionary And Thesaurus of the  English Language defines the word: wretch n. a person in great misfortune, a contemptible or wicked person, wretch-ed adj. miserably sad of exceedingly poor quality, construction etc., contemptible, causing or characteri...