Bigot CRUMBLES When Asked Simple Question About Her Beliefs

1.) HOW WOKE WENT FROM "BLACK" TO "BAD"

THE BLACK LINEAGE OF WOKE
“To be woke is to be Black,” is how Okayplayer Senior News and Culture Reporter Elijah Watson defined the Black American colloquialism, now broadly used derisively, when he embarked on a journey in 2017 to plot its origins. Ironically, his research first turned up a 1962 New York Timesessay, “If You’re Woke You Dig It,” by the then Harlem-based writer William Melvin Kelley, who was highlighting the phenomenon of Black American slang being appropriated by white people who often missed or altogether distorted the words’ original meanings, until the idioms were taken over, inevitably transformed, and ultimately abandoned by their original Black creators.

Michael Harriot, columnist at TheGrio and author of the upcoming book, Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America, explains that this kind of insidious takeover and flipping of Black vernacular to anti-Black pejorative has numerous parallels in America’s past and runs all the way up to present day.

“When you look at the long arc of history and America’s reaction to the request for Black liberation – every time Black people try to use a phrase or coin a phrase that symbolizes our desire for liberation, it will eventually become a cuss word to white people,” Harriot says in an interview with LDF.

And Black people have never been silent — or at a loss for innovation — when articulating demands for justice. In fact, the use of “woke” as an in-group signal urging Black people to be aware of the systems that harm and otherwise put us at a disadvantage is documented as far back as the 1920s. The Jamaican philosopher Marcus Garvey, exhorting members of the Black diaspora in America, Jamaica, and elsewhere to join the cause of Pan-Africanism, called on them to “Wake Up!” By 1938, the ​​iconic American Blues musician Lead Belly (born Huddie Ledbetter) had recorded the song “Scottsboro Boys.” The ballad tells the true story of four Black youths who were falsely accused of raping a white woman in Scottsboro, Alabama, and subsequently convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to death — though they were thankfully freed after several appeals and trials. In the song, Lead Belly says of Alabama, “I advise everybody to be a little careful when they go down there. Stay woke. Keep your eyes open.”

The use of the word “woke” continued to spread throughout all sectors of Black Americans’ lives. In 1940, after finding out they were being paid less than their white counterparts, the leader of a Black mine workers union in West Virginia that launched a strike against discriminatory pay reportedly said,according to Harriot’s research, “We were asleep. But we will stay woke from now on.” The word, in this Black-specific sense, would continue to show up across the decades, including in Barry Beckham’s 1972 play Garvey Lives!, where one character says, “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.”

SOURCE : https://www.naacpldf.org/woke-black-bad/



2.) Exhibit A Bill Maher: Why White People Should Stop Using The Term ‘Woke’…Immediately

SOURCE : https://www.forbes.com/sites/danabrownlee/2021/04/19/why-white-people-should-stop-using-the-term-wokeimmediately/?sh=6d9ae88e7779



3.) Before you fight over the word 'woke,' learn its history. It will blow you away.

There’s a good chance none of us would know the word today had the Library of Congress not set out in the 1930s to preserve American folk music in the South.

Woke' emerges with a song about race and suffering

While first recording his song "The Scottsboro Boys," about nine African-American young men falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama, Lead Belly admonished listeners to, “Best stay woke!”

It’s believed to be the first recorded instance of the word.

As Huddie Ledbetter used “woke,” it meant that when you’re a Black person traveling through a deeply racist state such as Alabama, you need to know what you’re dealing with – a highly refined form of evil.

Ledbetter would know. He traveled the byways of Louisiana, Alabama and Texas singing his songs and confronting white bigotry and its violence against Black people.

SOURCE : https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/philboas/2023/06/07/where-did-the-word-woke-come-from-its-history-will-blow-you-away/ [login to see] 7/

1.) “Stay woke became a watch word in parts of the black community for those who were self-aware, questioning the dominant paradigm and striving for something better. ”
“ Being woke was originally associated with black Americans fighting racism, but has been appropriated by other activist groups – taking it from awareness and blackness to a colourless and timeless phenomenon.”

Staying woke is predicated on a maxim so common in Black America that the New York Times once simply called it a part of the “Negro idiom”. The first documented use of the phrase “stay woke” occurred in 1938, when Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter ended a song about nine Black men by advising Black people traveling through Alabama to “stay woke … Keep your eyes open.” In 1940, a member of the Negro United Mine Workers promised that the striking members would “stay woke up longer” than their opposition

SOURCE : https://theconversation.com/amp/where-woke-came-from-and-why-marketers-should-think-twice-before-jumping-on-the-social-activism-bandwagon-122713


2.) Woke Racism' tackles anti-racism, performative action and its effect on Black Americans

SOURCE : https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/woke-racism-tackles-anti-racism-performative-action-and-its-effect-on-black-americans


3.) War on wokeness: the year the right rallied around a made-up menace

A modern-day blend of McCarthyism and white grievance became the focus of a rightwing crusade in 2022

“ DeSantis was summoning the resentment that produced the racial terrorism of Reconstruction, the pro-lynching Red Summer of 1919, and the pro-segregation states’ rights movement. This time, it was called anti-woke: a modern-day mixture of McCarthyism and white grievance.
In 2021, the right became increasingly irate at what it described as “wokeness” but which tended to mean any attempt to engage in civil rights or social justice. In 2022, anti-woke became an ideology in itself, an attempt for the right to rebrand bigotry as a resistance movement.”
“ In Churchillian tones, he announced: “We fight the woke in the legislature. We fight the woke in the schools. We fight the woke in the corporations. We will never, ever surrender to the woke mob. Florida is where woke goes to die.”
SOURCE : https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/20/anti-woke-race-america-history

4.) Stay Woke
The new sense of 'woke' is gaining popularity
What to Know
Woke is now defined in this dictionary as “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice),” and identified as U.S. slang. It originated in African American English and gained more widespread use beginning in 2014 as part of the Black Lives Matter movement. By the end of that same decade it was also being applied by some as a general pejorative for anyone who is or appears to be politically left-leaning.

SOURCE :
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/woke-meaning-origin

SP5 Dennis Loberger this is from someone I highly respect...
MAJ Karl Swenson

SGT Charlie Lee - I think I know the definition of "woke." However, it appears that the definition has flip-flopped in the past few years. In 2017, "woke" was defined by Merriam-Webster as "aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)." The Oxford dictionary adopted it the same year, defining it as "originally: well-informed, up-to-date." But now it seems that the conservatives have changed the meaning to an idea or someone who is more intolerant of conservative beliefs and values.
So, the reason I asked SPC Lyle Montgomery for his definition of "woke" was to see if he is simply jumping on a bandwagon of conservative speak or if he truly understands. But then, we can make our own assumptions, especially given the definition of Whataboutism offered just above (or below, depending on where the electronic editor decides) graciously provided by Capt Gregory Prickett. "Oh yeah? So what about this, or what about that?" Reminds me of a playground argument...

"Woke" is an Old, Old Term in the "Ethnic" Community, Not Much in Use Anymore, Now the Reich Wing Finally have Heard of It? Damn They're Slow! It was used to speak of How Historically Screwed People of Color have been. The Reich Wing is still fighting the Battles of the 60's using Terms from the 60's. I Guess they Think they Can't be Called Racist since they are Not Using the N Word Anymore. It doesn't take Much Though to Figure Out where this is Coming From!”

And then there is this meme...

That makes 2 of us. I can say for certain that those people are unwise. The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord.

SP5 Dennis Loberger I Grew Up in Mixed Cultures. When I started Hearing It. It Meant aware of Past and Continuing Injustices. Went Out of Fashion for a Long Time then I heard it Again it was used as a Curse Word for Everything the Right Didn't Like. I've Always Understood it as a Word for Awareness and Empathy.