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Stop making fun of “Kumbaya”
“Kumbaya” began as the sincere plea of a generation of African Americans for God’s intervention, but since entering popular culture in the 1950s it has become a metaphor of naive optimism or corny camaraderie and thus a term of derision, … Continue reading
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Tagged african american spirituals, geechee, gullah, kumbaya hippies, origin of kumbaya, what does kumbaya mean
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