Post AY6xHmsZPtNr5sG3f6 by mike@robot.rodeo
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 (DIR) Post #AY6xHjuETFvlsA0qKu by mike@robot.rodeo
       2023-07-26T20:40:38Z
       
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       I don't know who needs to hear this, but the term "woke" didn't start with kids on Twitter.The was first recorded by Lead Belly in the 1930s in a song called "The Scottsboro Boys," about the dangers Black Americans faced traveling through states in the Deep South. The original line was "best stay woke," as in, "remain aware of the dangers of racism."Black communities shortened the term to "stay woke," over time, and eventually added "woke" as a state of being--or constant awareness.
       
 (DIR) Post #AY6xHlsB9rTbyN4EPg by Dameatomicginger@noagendasocial.com
       2023-07-27T06:26:45Z
       
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       @mike when the communist’s we’re trying to use black workers to start a revolution in America? Lol yup history sure does repeat itself 🤡🌍
       
 (DIR) Post #AY6xHmsZPtNr5sG3f6 by mike@robot.rodeo
       2023-07-26T20:41:41Z
       
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       No matter how much white progressives or conservatives around the world co-opt or otherwise abuse the term, it's organs like with Black people, and its original context is quite wise.
       
 (DIR) Post #AY8wdRqjyotq3kI6AC by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2023-07-28T05:28:50Z
       
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       @mike> Black communities shortened the term to "stay woke," over time, and eventually added "woke" as a state of being--or constant awareness... and then the term was appropriated by neoliberals and their various camp-followers and Useful Idiots, looking for a way to make common cause between apologists for "end of history" capitalist realism, and the social movements of the marginalized uniting against it. The term is now overloaded to the point of meaninglessness and best avoided.@alyssa