MLK's daughter urges Americans to "stay woke" ahead of Trump return
MLK's daughter urges Americans to "stay woke" ahead of Trump return
Bernice A. King, MLK's daughter, told an audience at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church that advocates "will remain woke" against rollbacks of civil rights gains as the new administration's agenda takes hold.
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The opposite of woke is asleep. How the word woke became a bad thing is beyond me. Take it back.
It started off in the black community to refer to people who were aware of systemic injustices against black people.
And now that it refers to systemic injustices against any minority group, the word is really offensive to a bunch of losers! Lmao
Black people say it, therefore it must be a work of the devil.
I wish I was kidding. That's really what happened.
Its never been a bad thing. Just like being gay has never been a bad thing.
Black people used "woke" to mean "aware of the injustices facing black people", "awake" to them, if you will. People later extended that word to injustices facing minorities in general, whether by race, gender, etc.
Trumpists hate minorities, and as such, believe that being woke is being delusional. Hence why they see it as bad.