Bakari Sellers: "You Want 'Woke,' You Can Have It"
Everybody is talking about wokeness, what it means and how the Republicans killed it. A USA TODAY poll says most people (including Republicans) see the word as something positive. And yet, the Republicans are blaming wokeness on the second-largest bank failure. What we all know is that it was first defined by Black people. So we asked Bakari Sellers (lawyer, CNN Commentator and Twitter master), do we want it back?
Some people say to me, Wait! Tucker Carlson and other right wingers like DeSantis have come after wokeness! What do you say about that? My response is always, Let em have it. Look, its been co-opted so much that it no longer means anything to Black people. Woke was a word for some of us Black folks who found a level of intelligencia, who began to study and understand who they are and where they come from, and began to think critically about the world around them. Now it has been co-opted by white people into something I dont recognize.
Among people like Tucker, woke is a political term to describe people on the left who want to fight for social justice. And while that may encompass some of the traditional woke values, that aint what it is.
Its funny to watch people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and other white people who do not understand co-opt this word into something negative. Theyve bastardized it and will continue to bastardize other methods, meanings, and words of empowerment, including critical race theory. Why? Because those words were, in fact, empowering and did encourage, enlighten and put some people on a path to learn more about themselves, this world and their place in it. At the end of the day, they can have it. But Im not going give them hip hop, though.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/bakari-sellers-want-woke-182000355.html
Skittles
(153,111 posts)tired of repukes taking words like LIBERAL, FEMINIST, SOCIALISM, WOKE and re-defining them - FUCK THAT - they CAN'T HAVE IT, WE NEED TO TAKE IT BACK
LoisB
(7,173 posts)to take positive words/concepts and turn them into negatives.
live love laugh
(13,074 posts)Each time they are assumed to be dumb for their contrived, attention-stealing antics they get let off the hook for the very real damage they do.