don t get caught up. this too shall pass. wokeness is divisive, exclusionary and hateful. are you even woke? culture is garbage. oh my god, so much yelling, so much fighting! against all things woke. this is where woke goes to die. getting critical race theory out of our schools is a matter of national survival. aren t things bad enough? do we have to fight about this word? woke. woke. woke. you are so woke. you woke the sleeping giant. critical race theory is bigoted, it is a lie and it is every bit as racist as klansmen in white sheets. okay. i m going to wade in and try to explain woke. all right. open my eyes, take a deep breath. oh, no. i m in arizona. all right, this is where we re at in america, everybody. we have a new enemy, and it is woke. not the word, the idea. actually, also the word. maybe mostly the word? putin ain t woke. he is anti-woke. i want florida to be known as the brick wall against all things woke. you heard
a creative way for one black person to say to another, hey, be smart. stay aware. america is dangerous. you know, keep your top eye open. keep your head on a swivel. let me pull your coat. for decades, woke sort of stayed on the bench of black vernacular, poke its head out here and there. then came 2014. the killing of michael brown in ferguson, missouri by a police officer heralded the rise of the #staywoke on twitter. even though black twitter is run by black folks, it s on regular twitter where everybody else can see it. and woke eventually became the battle him of latte lib rams. all of the sudden and everybody was woke. woke and namasted. woke in the dog park. woke at pilates. woke at the farmer s market. it was the ballot cry for general self-righteousness and reformative social justice campaigns. we just use it for fun now.