'Woke may feel like a term that has lost all coherent meaning... or one that has been twisted so much it has bent into a slur, but its roots, undoubtedly, are Black.'
at Oberlin College. “The great challenge facing every individual graduating today is to remain awake through this social revolution,” he said.
From Kelley and King in the 60s, woke made its way to the 2000s when Erykah Badu re-popularized “stay woke” in her song “Master Teacher.” Black women scholars of course have been using the word in their works for decades. But once pop culture got a hold of woke, it was everywhere.
” for example. “Lil Wayne talked about ‘canceling that bitch’,” Bridges laughs. “‘Ya canceled’ was on! It was a term amongst folks in the Black hip-hop community and for the term to be taken out of that community, which might be inevitable, but to deploy it against us and to say it ruins lives and it’s Black people on Twitter doing it, it’s again a double violation,” Bridges reiterates.
“But I believe in Gen Z and Gen Alpha,” Hayles insists. “They don’t have the same patience for racism as their boomer parents or grandparents. The people freaking out are not young people. We can tell young people to vote and whatever, but the problem is that you can’t fight a system fairly when the system is never going to play fair back.”
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