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In the 21st century's first decade, the use of woke encompassed the earlier meaning with an added sense of being "alert to social and/or racial discrimination and injustice". [7] "Master Teacher", a 2008 song by the American singer Erykah Badu (pictured in 2012), included the term stay woke.
It was first used by Pan-African activist Marcus Garvey as early as 1923. "Woke" was meant to acknowledge the struggles of African Americans and a word of empowerment for some Black people.
By the mid-20th century, woke "had been extended figuratively to refer to being ‘aware’ or ‘well informed’ in a political or cultural sense," and the dictionary credited Badu's use of the ...
William Safire records this as the first use in the typical modern sense. [25] The term political correctness was believed to have been revived by the New Left through familiarity in the West with Mao's Little Red Book, in which Mao stressed holding to the correct party line. The term rapidly began to be used by the New Left in an ironic or ...
Kelley is credited [4] with being the first to commit the term "woke" to print, in the title of a 1962 op-ed for The New York Timeson the use of African-American slang by beatniks: "If You're Woke, You Dig It". [5] [10] For Kathryn Schulz, writing in The New Yorker in 2018, Kelley is "the lost giant of American literature". [3]
Few Americans use terminology that is commonly deemed as “woke,” according to a new survey. In the YouGov survey, under a quarter of Americans polled said they “regularly use” words and ...
The survey was conducted during the first week of March and it included 1,023 participants across the country. Recently, the term “woke” has been used by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, widely seen ...
Go woke, go broke, or alternatively get woke, go broke, is an American political catchphrase used by right-wing groups to criticize and boycott businesses publicly supporting progressive policies, including empowering women, LGBT people and critical race theory ("going woke"), claiming that stock value and business performance will inevitably suffer ("going broke") as a result of adopting ...