How can you complain about being unwelcome in a space you weren’t invited into?
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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I remember when “stay woke” was just slang in our community. If you knew, you knew. It sure as hell didn’t mean anything near how folks in the media use it now. Somehow it broke out and took on whole new life.
They be so mad when they get hit with the
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They showed up
Stuck their nose into something that wasn’t even their Biz
Tried to copy/emulate what was clearly in rebellion to them to try and fit in
Wore it down to a nub by trying to “apply” it to their struggles
Then EVENTUALLY turned to hating it…… story as old as time
Ask someone who hates wokeness to define it in a way that doesn’t make them sound like an asshole for hating it.
But buckle up first, because those goalposts will go for a ride.
Because when there are Black people talking that irrational fear comes alive and white people gotta insert themselves, because for them large groups of Black people talking = trouble. Because way back in the day we weren’t allowed to congregate in large groups in case we were planning uprisings.
That fear haunts them till they die. 🤷🏾♀️
It really went from your uncle telling you to be aware of the world, to some Karen’s favorite buzzword.
Any black person or woman in government is automatically a DEI hire, but not the white disabled veterans? Theyre so angry at the chance that someone else will benefit from it that they’re willing to remove it to hurt themselves
The funniest thing is that to complain about “wokeness” is to prove how unwoke you are. In the most simplistic terms, being woke is literally “staying conscious of injustice” and people are like HOW DIVISIVE! WE MUST STOP THIS! Ignorant, racist fools out here looking so silly, telling on themselves without knowing an ounce of what they’re talking about.
I miss the days when woke was exclusively used in online black circles :/
I’ve retired it from my lexicon years ago once it went mainstream.
That’s okay well come up with something new
I walked into this establishment full of people I vocally hate and don’t like how they are disgruntled by my loud opinions of them, what happened to MY country!! /s
Sometimes it’s like just call me a slur and get it over with. We know what you mean by woke just say the word.
Because to them it’s only fun when they are the ones excluding YOU! If you go off and establish your own cool then their exclusion isn’t fun anymore.
it was always about trying to come up with acceptable ways to express their hatred for minorities
White folks when they see black folks tryna build
I legit saw something recently where some 🍞person was demonizing the word “woke” and why they’re so sick of hearing it and saying they don’t even know who came up with that term anyway.
And, I saw an interview with Ms. Badu who claimed she originated the term in its now popular use on Master Teacher.
We know the song. We bought the album. We are aware of its use on that song. ⚪️ people? Hardly.
Now whether that’s truly the first place it originated and gained at least Black mainstream attention in its current vernacular use use, its crystal clear the term was created FOR US BY US.
So, their sudden indignation of the term is, once again, 👻 ppl stealing, appropriating, overusing, bastardizing and eventually demonizing Blackness.
If y’all had your own culture, you wouldn’t be OH SO TIRED of stealing and hearing ours.
If I remember right, every Spike Lee movie has the line “Wake up!” in it.
i blame dear white people. that series pretty much started it. especially since blm was hot back then. gave the phrase a ton of exposure it didnt need
The right wing meaning of woke (anything they don’t like) has nothing to do with the original use and meaning.
YT pipo be like…
but hate it
Tale as old as time. Always have to be the center just to be the center. 5 times as much if its a white woman.
It’s just another dogwhistle. Same as “States rights” was used to explain why Bubba supports the confederacy, ignoring it was indeed because they wanted to continue to enslave people.
Exactly. F em…
Big Columbus energy
I will never understand how people can be thin skinned enough to be offended hearing about social issues that don’t affect them which they don’t feel responsible for in the first place.
If you’re white and you’re not racist, hearing people talk about racist white people shouldn’t bother you.
People act like anti-racism is anti-white and then call people crazy for thinking they’re racist. But they’re offended about people being against racism and pretending people hate them for it when that’s exactly what racists do.
It’s like saying “I don’t get why people think I’m homophobic. All I do is argue and feel personally victimized as a straight person when people talk about homophobia and gay rights.”
The problem with social media is that we can’t have in group conversations. Everyone sees.
I remember when the woke crowd was just black Hebrew israelites then it morphed to knowing about systemic racism and not falling victim to it.
I understand why whites wanted to change the meaning so bad
This describes damn near their entire existence
It’s what they do … barge in uninvited and then center themselves over everyone else. It’s literally just colonization on a smaller scale.
Excuse me I am white and what is going on here
*taps clipboard with my mechanical pencil*
If they don’t like the environment they should just GTFO.
Funny they complain when we do our own and they call it “reverse racism”. Which doesn’t exist. But we wouldn’t have to create our own if they didn’t exclude us in the first place. But they want to be able to call themselves the victims when all the while they have victimized everyone else.