The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for October 12, 2024
October 11, 2024
October 13, 2024
Transcript:
Huey: As good as black folks are at making music, you'd think there would be some popular Kwanzaa songs or something... Caesar: I don't know... Kwanzaa words aren't the easiest to make rhymes out of... Huey: I never thought of that... Nguzo Saba... "jabba"... "abba"... "guava"... yeah, you may have a point.
And since Kwanzaa was invented in America, few if any American songwriters know enough about African music to write pop tunes. And then there is still the problem with lyrics.