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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.

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No, no it doesn’t.

It’s a work and takes in multiple meanings depending on context or the times.

Your quote misuses it to say “stay vigilant”.

Bankrupt BLM and DEI used it during Covid to say “be enlightened” to their cause.

Then it because a term for appeasing BLM and DEI demands.

Now there are DEI and BLM lawsuits everywhere and the left wants to use Woke as a term for right wing nut jobs and the right wants to use Woke as a term for left wing nut jobs.

Good stuff. [/quote]

"Stay vigilant" was never a misuse.  That was always the original use.  But not just "stay vigilant" but also to be aware and informed to the social and cultural subtexts that nobody wants to talk about publicly, like racism.

Now where is anyone wanting to call right wingers "woke?"  Do you have a citation for that?  I've never heard of that usage.[/quote]

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