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| jason19192 01/14/21 9:58:44 PM #32: | Dathrowed1 posted... This, no black man born before 1981 is using the term "woke"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke Oxford Dictionaries record early politically conscious usage in 1962 in the article "If You're Woke You Dig It" by William Melvin Kelley in The New York Times and in the 1971 play Garvey Lives! by Barry Beckham which reads: "I been sleeping all my life. And now that Mr. Garvey done woke me up, I'm gon' stay woke. And I'm gon help him wake up other black folk." Garvey had himself exhorted his early 20th century audiences, "Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa!" Aja Romano also claims that an early example of woke was used by Marcus Garvey to encourage blacks to become more socially and politically conscious. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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