Kumbaya AKA Kum Ba Yah

Roughly translated as "Come by here", an African-American spiritual motif of disputed origin. Kumbaya has been sung in the Gullah culture on the coastal Carolina islands, first by enslaved peoples and later in syncretic Gullah Christian churches. Though first sung to signify defiance and unity in the face of oppression, the phrase was later repurposed by American politicians as a thought-terminating cliché portraying the pursuit of peace as a neutered and fang-less enterprise riddled with compromise and kowtowing.