'White Lives Matter' member gets 18 years for firebombing church that planned drag events

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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