We are thoroughly exasperated at the lack of critical response to the propagandistic misuse of the modern term “woke,” tactically reconfigured by the bigoted citizen to represent a populist epithet. It has no such epithetical intent or meaning, and we are disappointed that the responsible media have failed to criticise such misuse. A distasteful example of its misuse is the populist boast of the right-wing Governor of the State of Florida, Ron DeSantis: “Florida is the State where ‘woke’ goes to die.”The dystopian misdemeanor is termed “wokism.”
Right-wing politicians tactically solicit support from their regressive MAGA supporters with the application of the misused word in sundry forms, like “wokeness” to indicate unacceptability or even un-American. As indicated, we are angered and frustrated with said ignorant practice, which anger is exacerbated by the empirical absence of critical comments concerning such miscreant use.
The thematic term “woke” is a populist form of the adjective “awakened” and connotes awareness, consciousness, and recognition, especially social consciousness. Does the Florida Governor intend to indicate pride in his boastful assertion that “woke” or social consciousness comes to die in Florida, from his observed views and actions, he may well be effectively accurate.
The sincere efforts of right-thinking, constitutionally observant Americans of every skin color and ethnos to attain “a more perfect union,” in which “equality” is universal has been a long, arduous, albeit positive, movement, aggravated by the past, historically inhumane chattel slavery of black people. While the aspiration for universal equality is socially challenging, social interaction and relevant legislation have advanced such avowed American ideal, albeit slowly.
In the interim, relative to many social phenomena, the plight of black and colored people, relative to various contexts, is empirically more problematic than that of white people. Finance, domicile, mortgaging, employment, admission to Country Clubs, and certain organizations are representative examples. Although unintended by right-thinking American citizens, this societal difference is sociologically termed “White Privilege,” the somber recognition of which is existentially important in the pursuit of the Nation’s traditionally avowed, universal equality.
Such humanistic, societal recognition is the pragmatic prerequisite to the ultimate attainment of universal American equality; it is referred to as “woke.”
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