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Rhiannon12866

(202,970 posts)
Tue Mar 14, 2023, 11:45 PM Mar 2023

Joy Reid: Word 'woke' triggers the MAGA base but doesn't keep most Americans up at night - The ReidOut



Ron DeSantis is “far more dangerous than Donald Trump,” politics expert Matthew Dowd tells Joy Reid. Historian Jelani Cobb also joins The ReidOut to discuss DeSantis calling the brutal invasion of Ukraine nothing more than a "territorial dispute." - Aired on 03/14/2023.


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Joy Reid: Word 'woke' triggers the MAGA base but doesn't keep most Americans up at night - The ReidOut (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Mar 2023 OP
This.. U.S.Rep. Barbara Lee' s words used in Merriam-Webster to explain woke RestoreAmerica2020 Mar 2023 #1
Thank you! I've never understood what's meant by "woke" and I love Barbara Lee Rhiannon12866 Mar 2023 #2

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,433 posts)
1. This.. U.S.Rep. Barbara Lee' s words used in Merriam-Webster to explain woke
Wed Mar 15, 2023, 12:59 AM
Mar 2023





Merriam-Webster dictionary is using Rep. Barbara Lee's words to explain what 'woke' means
September 14, 2017 Tron Nick; brownwatch.squarespace.com





woke
1 of 2
adjective
ˈwōk
woker; wokest
Synonyms of woke
chiefly US slang
1
: aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)
But we will only succeed if we reject the growing pressure to retreat into cynicism and hopelessness. … We have a moral obligation to "stay woke," take a stand and be active; challenging injustices and racism in our communities and fighting hatred and discrimination wherever it rises.
—Barbara Lee

Rhiannon12866

(202,970 posts)
2. Thank you! I've never understood what's meant by "woke" and I love Barbara Lee
Wed Mar 15, 2023, 01:06 AM
Mar 2023

The closest I came was an explanation that I saved, posted on DU last week. *sigh*




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