@ShylaVernik [name pseudonymized] [03]: @BrianRo37622801 @piersmorgan Don't put #woke in it, even as sarcasm.... ;) lol [URL redacted]
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@SawyerMuratov [name pseudonymized]: @elonmusk @getpaidwrite The #whitenationalist mind is the virus. #Woke or #StayWoke is being alert or aware of social injustice. Sadly #amerikkkafirst #republikkkans have been trying to change the meaning because they don't like being called out for being aganist social justice, especially their racism. [URL redacted]
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@BrandyCadle [name pseudonymized]: @BBCJournalism @BBCBreaking check out from 3.23 to hear #LeadBelly explain the usage of #Woke in his own words from 1938.
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@JohnnieEwings [name pseudonymized]: Why is the word ‘Woke’ used as an insult?? It literally means alert to social discrimination and injustice #Woke
‘Wide awake’ was used in this context in ads by Lincoln in 1860 #WideAwakes and Leadbelly was telling folk to “stay woke” in 1938 🎵 [URL redacted] [URL redacted]
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@ChantelleCrouther [name pseudonymized]: @RitaPanahi #woke is one of the most misused words. Ppl say it when they mean someone who they class as cultist.
In 1940’s #LeadBelly used “stay woke” in explicit association with Black Americans' need to be aware of racially motivated threats & the potential dangers of white America. #BLM [URL redacted]
#IndivMusicianLeadBelly #PleaStayWoke #CharacterisationWokeAsCompliment #IdentityAmericanBlackAndAfrican #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM
Supplementary: #TheoryLinguisticsSocioAfricanAmericanVernacularEnglishAAVE i.e. "African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is the variety formerly known as Black English Vernacular or Vernacular Black English among sociolinguists, and commonly called Ebonics outside the academic community. While some features of AAVE are apparently unique to this variety, in its structure it also shows many commonalties with other varieties including a number of standard and nonstandard English varieties spoken in the US and the Caribbean. AAVE has been at the heart of several public debates and the analysis of this variety has also sparked and sustained debates among sociolinguists." https://www.hawaii.edu/satocenter/langnet/definitions/aave.html
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