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Before conservatives weaponized it, ‘woke’ meant being alert to systemic dangers artwork

Before conservatives weaponized it, ‘woke’ meant being alert to systemic dangers

Black Talk Radio Network
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Kevin Roberts studied Black survival, then helped weaponize the cultural term “woke.” But woke was never the problem. Sleepwalking through a dangerous nation built on anti-Black laws, Black Codes, convict leasing, and white mob violence was the problem then, and willful ignorance is still the danger now.

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