Meaning of kumbaya | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used to evoke spiritual unity and interpersonal harmony, with varying degrees of sincerity or sarcasm, as referring to the folk song.
2. Alternative letter-case form of kumbaya.
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Examples

“Dr. Hoffman told me the word kumbaya was originally an African American spiritual, a song that was also a prayer asking for divine intervention, asking for help⟳ in dire times, and that then the hippies in the sixties took it and sang it to mean⟳ unity amid protest⟳, and then it got played out and became a stand-in for corniness about togetherness.”

“But the rise⟳ of multiracialism is not all Kumbaya choruses and “postracial” identity. The N.A.A.C.P. criticized the census change⟳, fearing that since so few in the black community are of fully African descent, mass attrition to a mixed-race option could threaten⟳ political clout and Federal financing.”

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