Stay Woke—Buy These Cookies! Charity Joy Goes Viral

Ruth McCambridge

March 2, 2018

February 27, 2018; Washington Post

There has never been a better argument for supporting the Girl Scouts than this video of Charity Joy and her father Seymour Harrison Jr. doing a rendition of Donald Glover’s “Redbone,” but with some excellent cookie selling lyrics.

Their video went viral and attracted many cookie buyers—including Glover himself, who bought 113 boxes when he met the six-year-old on Late Night with Steven Colbert.

Here is the original, sung by Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino.

—Ruth McCambridge

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Ruth McCambridge

Ruth is Editor Emerita of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.

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