“Woke” feels a little bit like Macklemore rapping in one of his latest tracks about how his whiteness makes his rap music more acceptable to other white people.
The broader uses of woke are still very much in flux, and there are some who are woke to the broader implications of woke:
It’s now seeing use as an adjective to refer to places where woke people commune: woke Twitter has very recently taken off as the shorthand for describing social-media activists. Like many other terms from black culture that have been taken into the mainstream, woke is gaining broader uses. Activists were woke and called on others to stay woke. The word woke became entwined with the Black Lives Matter movement instead of just being a word that signaled awareness of injustice or racial tension, it became a word of action. But stay woke and woke became part of a wider discussion in 2014, immediately following the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Stay woke became a watch word in parts of the black community for those who were self-aware, questioning the dominant paradigm and striving for something better. Woke’s transformation into a byword of social awareness likely started decades earlier but began to be more broadly known in 2008, with the release of Erykah Badu’s song “Master Teacher”:Įven when the preacher tell you some liesĮven though you go through struggle and strifeĮverybody knows a black or a white there's creatures in every shape and size It can be hard to trace slang back to its origins since slang’s origins are usually spoken, and it can be particularly difficult to trace a slang word that has its origins in a dialect. 'Woke' is increasingly used as a byword for social awareness.
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