woke

[Stalin]

once again like "politically correct", a progressive term has been used by the sexist, racist bigots ( 76 million and counting ) who infest
the doomed-to-fail MAGA movement and their violent fellow travellers ( see jan 6 killing of policemen )

without the conscious use of irony, this term has been taken up by the obliterati

at the very least, they should pay royalties for use of this copyright...

"..Among the earliest uses of the idea of wokeness as a concept for black political consciousness came from Jamaican philosopher and social activist Marcus Garvey, who wrote in 1923, "Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa!"

A 1923 collection of aphorisms, ideas, and other writing by Garvey also adopts this metaphor in the following epigram: "Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellation of nations.

Black American folk singer-songwriter Huddie Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly, used the phrase "stay woke" as part of a spoken afterword to a 1938 recording of his song "Scottsboro Boys", which tells the story of nine black teenagers and young men falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931. In the recording, Lead Belly says he met with the defendant's lawyer and the young men themselves, and "I advise everybody, be a little careful when they go along through there (Scottsboro) – best stay woke, keep their eyes open." Aja Romano writes at Vox that this usage reflects "black Americans' need to be aware of racially motivated threats and the potential dangers of white America."

By the mid-20th century, woke had come to mean 'well-informed' or 'aware', especially in a political or cultural The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest such usage to a 1962 New York Times Magazine article titled "If You're Woke You Dig It" by African-American novelist William Melvin Kelley, describing the appropriation of black slang by white beatniks.

Woke had gained more political connotations by 1971 when the play Garvey Lives! by Barry Beckham included the line: "I been sleeping all my life. And now that Mr. Garvey done woke me up, I'm gon' stay woke. And I'm gon help him wake up other black folk."

Woke - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

comrade stalin
moscow-on-the-woke

 

[Stalin]

from the same website

According to Perry Bacon Jr., ideas that have come to be associated with "wokeness" include

a rejection of American exceptionalism;

a belief that the United States has never been a true democracy;

that people of color suffer from systemic and institutional racism;

that white Americans experience white privilege;

that African Americans deserve reparations for slavery and post-enslavement discrimination;

that disparities among racial groups, for instance in certain professions or industries,

are automatic evidence of discrimination;

that U.S. law enforcement agencies are designed to discriminate against people of color and so should be defunded, disbanded, or heavily reformed;

that women suffer from systemic sexism;

that individuals should be able to identify with any gender or none;

that U.S. capitalism is deeply flawed;

and that Trump's election to the presidency was not an aberration but a reflection of the prejudices about people of color held by large parts of the U.S. population.

Although increasingly accepted across much of the American Left, many of these ideas were nevertheless unpopular among the U.S. population as a whole and among other, especially more centrist, parts of the Democratic Party.

plenty here to debate...let's hear it...

comrade stalin
moscow-on-the-woke