A history of “wokeness”

Posted on AllSides October 10th, 2020
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ANALYSIS

Before 2014, the call to “stay woke” was, for many people, unheard of. The idea behind it was common within Black communities at that point — the notion that staying “woke” and alert to the deceptions of other people was a basic survival tactic. But in 2014, following the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, “stay woke” suddenly became the cautionary watchword of Black Lives Matter activists on the streets, used in a chilling and specific context: keeping watch for police brutality and unjust police tactics.

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https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy

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