What is woke?
Liberals claim that conservatives have turned the term into a catch-all bogeyman they can’t even define — even though it’s a word that progressives themselves use.
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But as someone who has explored this topic extensively over the past year, I am ready with an answer:
The term “woke” was originally used in black communities in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s.
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