rostasi

Well, there’s nothing difficult when it comes to a definition: it’s always been just a past participle of “wake” or “to be awake” or aware. …and black folk have known that and have used that term in their vernacular longer than any of us here have been alive. I remember it in the 70s and it goes back well before the middle of the last century. It’s just that now, insecure white people feel especially emboldened in trying to boost their supposed superiority by using black colloquialisms as a “cultural” club only to have it come back at them and hit them in the face.

Laughing at their ridiculousness and going about your day while staying woke (or, alternatively, “mindful” as “Mindy” would say) of what’s going on.
Black folks, especially, know how important that is. That’s the real “talk” that parents have with their young, growing children.

Chula Vista

Google is your friend.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

rostasi

One of the telling usages of “woke” in the early part of last century was that, depending on your belief in God, it had the same general meaning, but the philosophy of how you used the word differed. Keeping it music related, if you were a God-fearing gospel singer, “woke” referred to a higher belief that God was the one that made you woke (“He [the Lord] woke me up this morning…”), but if you were a blues singer (“I woke up this morning, blues all around my bed…”) then “woke” referred to a condition that only you could control - that life was pretty bleak and that it was up to you to be woke to your surroundings. Basically, gospel folk knew they weren’t alone - blues musicians almost certainly knew that they were.

I’m not gonna get into it again, but please resize your pictures.
It makes it real difficult to followup your comments.

rostasi

Chula Vista

Was going to but then the text became unreadable.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

rostasi

"Origins and Timeline of the Word "Woke."

Exo

This one is really hard to break.

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The Batlord

Do mentally challenged people even know what it means?

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jwb

cringe post, whiteboy.

rostasi

coming from you?