This I didn't know--origin of "woke"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Marcus Garvey.
Lead Belly:
"I advise everybody, be a little careful when they go along through there (Scottsboro) – best stay woke, keep their eyes open."

Friend who is kind of an idiot asked where it came from so I looked it up.

Puts a different perspective on it.

No

Sorry, the origin of woke is wake. Like wake up. Awoken. To see the light. Or be brainwashed by it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the different perspective? I’m not sure what you’re saying.

It is not something just made up by elite white college student libs with lavender hair and a lot of piercings.

The black activitist community popularized the term during the Ferguson riots. I think this is common knowledge. Once it went viral, white libs leaned into it a little too hard and it became a term of mockery.

The Black community used the term long before Ferguson.

Yes, that’s the entire point of this thread. But the term started going mainstream with Ferguson.

Yay mass media and social media!!

[Anonymous]

OP again

According to wikipedia, white beatniks were already appropriating it in 1962.

But I believe in looking at the roots of things, and the reality is that there are unbroken threads going back from BLM to the failures of desegregation to segregation itself, to redlining and denying black access to New Deal program, to the south using prisons to perpetuate the slave plantation and the theft of black-owned land, to the failure of the Union in abandoning any commitment to Reconstruction and handing political power right back to the oppressors.

William Faulkner was right. The past isn't dead, it's not even past.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the different perspective? I’m not sure what you’re saying.

It is not something just made up by elite white college student libs with lavender hair and a lot of piercings.

The black activitist community popularized the term during the Ferguson riots. I think this is common knowledge. Once it went viral, white libs leaned into it a little too hard and it became a term of mockery.

The Black community used the term long before Ferguson.

Yes, that’s the entire point of this thread. But the term started going mainstream with Ferguson.

You mean white people started using it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the different perspective? I’m not sure what you’re saying.

It is not something just made up by elite white college student libs with lavender hair and a lot of piercings.

The black activitist community popularized the term during the Ferguson riots. I think this is common knowledge. Once it went viral, white libs leaned into it a little too hard and it became a term of mockery.

The Black community used the term long before Ferguson.

Yes, that’s the entire point of this thread. But the term started going mainstream with Ferguson.

You mean white people started using it?

Wait til these guys discover rocks and roll!

[Anonymous]

Or watermelon!

We got the worldwide lock on that.