Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
T'was Grace that taught my heart to fear.
And Grace, my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear
The hour I first believed.
lmao
I don’t see how you came away with that interpretation.
I don’t see how you came away with that interpretation.
Man, the comments under that vid by people who got degrees from there are brutal! The first guy says something about going there...the second comment is from the poster(university) and then it`s just ... well, read `em...I don`t think the poster says anything else...LOL
There's a jazz singer named Grace Black who amazes her fans.
The song is about God's grace ~ not someone's race.
The tune is remarkably similar to a Christian Church call to come forward and become a Christian ~ and the tune there is from yet another source, and at least four different tunes have been used over the years.
Christianity teaches that all have sinned and all in need of God’s mercy, and in this sense no different from the worst sinner, not even a man who engaged in the business of kidnap slavery.
Seems to me you could just as easily have asked, "Does the University of Phoenix believe that "Amazing Grace" is a twenty-something white guy with a messenger bag?" Or, "Does the University of Phoenix believe that "Amazing Grace" is a crowd of mostly white people walking in the street?"
Perhaps, rather than being fixated on race, it might be better to rejoice that this amazing song, which is familiar to millions of people of all ethnic groups, is being played on TV every time that ad runs.
You have to try way too hard to come up with a problematic interpretation of that ad.
I think “Amazing Grace” is when a candidate gets hired in spite of having a University of Phoenix degree. :)
In the ad, the voice-over ends a sentence with a PREPOSITION!
“show the world what they are capable OF”
LOL.
It is a lovely rendition of one of my favorite hymns, though! :-)
That is absurd. I just watched the video. One would have to be a paranoid racist idiot to come to that conclusion.
If I had put this ad together I would not have used a song about redemption by the blood of Christ to sell online classes, but other than that there’s nothing wrong with this ad, and your thread title is kind of bizarre, especially when the central figure of the ad is a white male.
Just not seeing a problem here.