but damn that got me.

So very proud.....

He is something else

than the one he's giving and then he does it again. He truly is one of a kind and I thank God for him everyday...

That was a mic drop moment
And he didn't even have to drop the mic

I have never seen anything so amazing
and graceful !!!

They always do

Someone is going to post it on youtube at least. I can't watch it while I'm at work anyway because people are tired of seeing me tear up all week. It's been rough. I'm glad he's bringing it though. Those beautiful people deserve it. Aw no.....just did it again.

Will check it out later.

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Bookmarking for later.

slavemaster. That was freaking brilliant and I don't think any President every did that.

THen he hugged toe family.

I am in tears

in his early life was "pressed" into service by the Royal Navy. That is in itself a form of slavery. He entered the slave trade as a ship captain. He wrote the 1st verse of "Amazing Grace" when he had a conversion experience during a storm off the coast of Ireland. He continued for a time in the slave trade, but left to study theology and was ordained. He became an abolitionist and lived to see slavery abolished in the UK.

Thanks

look that up.

This piece of music is one that is always certain to move me to tears, even when there is not something sad going on. I find it particularly poignant when played on bagpipes.

Out president is truly one of a kind. I admire him more than words can say.

There is a wonderfully uplifting movie called Amazing Grace starring Ioan Griffud about British MP Wilbur Wilberforce's attempt to abolish the British slave trade during and after the Colonial Wars in America. Albert Finney plays his mentor John Newton.

And, as you like the hymn played on the bagpipes, you'll love the end-credit sequences which begins with one bagpipe playing the hymn solo, slowly crescendos to a section of bagpipes, finally climaxing to an entire drum, pipe and bugle corp playing it. Hair-standing-on-end kind of stuff.

...look for this. I have been a fan of this young actor since his short role in Titanic as the 5th officer, and the Horatio Hornblower series.

I have a very old LP that I bought in Scotland in 1974, which has a recording of Amazing Grace that is just as you describe, and it truly does give me goosebumps. I have not since heard a version quite as stirring since, altho some come close, but it sounds like this might do it.

I found my old record - Farewell To The Greys. The sound is limited on a PC, of course, but you can appreciate all the elements as they add in. My favorite way to play this was to turn it up full blast and stand between the speakers. I could feel it in my skin and my solar plexus - it is marvelous.

Tears are now a river...

I'm a teary mess.

He did EXACTLY the right thing to help these people heal. I love this guy, even if we sometimes disagree.

He genuinely cares about people, and his words uplifted everyone affected by the terrible tragedy that struck that church.

He just took the moment and let it carry him.... Utterly amazing and beautiful

...very inspirational.

and risky to sing, he handed it back to the church and let them finish and it was beautiful.

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His mother's people who raised him were Unitarians, if anything, like my family, but that entire sermon/eulogy was so steeped in African American Christianity that it was as if he had been born and raised in Mother Emmanuel. It is his spiritual home, genuinely.

but remember Rev Wright. He was literally African-American church there...nothing fake

planned but regardless it was a stunning moment from our President. It touched me.

He did an amazing eulogy -- personal, inclusive, challenging, clear. All the pastors on the stage with him sure were with him, smile. Me, too! Speaker John was bored, what a hoot. Saw one man on his phone. Great. Thank you to all involved in the broadcast.

when he came out to talk about the SC decision. I could see that he was very restrained and not shouting with joy. I knew this funeral was on his mind.
Now he has let it all out.
He touched the pain that has been there so long and he let us know who he is.

That was an amazing speech - so inspired and eloquent. President Obama was awe inspiring.

Regardless, a great moment for President Obama!

This week will go down in history.

... bout not singing... the pause is what brings the power to what was done

It will be remembered for a long, long time.

This is how he touches base with the community.

To the great dismay of utopians on DU.

This is such a bittersweet day- the sorrow of a funeral and the jubilee of marriage equality. What an emotional day.

We are lost and then we are found and we are a collection of motley things left behind..

What got me was the respectful way he honored each of those who died by saying their name like this one by one, "‘Clementa Pinckney found that grace. Cynthia Hurd found that grace. Susie Jackson found that grace. Ethel Lance found that grace. DePayne Middleton-Doctor that grace. Tywanza Sanders found that grace. Daniel L. Simmons Sr. found that grace. Sharonda Singleton found that grace. Myra Thompson found that grace.
‘Through the example of their lives, they’ve now passed it on to us."

The power of respecting the littler people in their meaningful and graceful lives is such a beautiful thing.