seems that "woke" has an interesting history
"...In some varieties of
African-American English,
woke is used in place of
woken, the usual
past participle form of
wake.This has led to the use of
woke as an adjective equivalent to
awake, which has become mainstream in the United States.
While it is not known when being awake was first used as a metaphor for political engagement and activism, one early example in the United States was the paramilitary youth organization the
Wide Awakes, which formed in
Hartford, Connecticut, in 1860 to support the Republican candidate in the
1860 presidential election,
Abraham Lincoln. Local chapters of the group spread rapidly across northern cities in the ensuing months and "triggered massive popular enthusiasm" around the election. The political militancy of the group also alarmed many southerners, who saw in the Wide Awakes confirmation of their fears of northern, Republican political aggression. The support among the Wide Awakes for
abolition, as well as the participation of a number of black men in a Wide Awakes parade in Massachusetts likely contributed to such anxiety
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