The Truth About Being a ‘Woke’ White Person

It seems it’s once again time to revisit what the word actually means, and where it came from to begin with.

Martie Sirois

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Image from the May 20, 1962 article by William Melvin Kelley, in the New York Times

If you lived on a diet of Fox, OAN, Newsmax, Rumble, or any of the (plentiful) other right-wing media outlets, you’d likely despise the word ‘woke’ and everything it represented. Well… everything you thought it…

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Martie Sirois

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