myrmepropagandist@cshentrup Maybe using “woke” a term with a long history to mean “senseless” is a huge mistake.
That’s kind of my whole point here.
tuban_muzuruWhen I first heard "woke", was on the west side of Chicago, with a bunch of Black Identity brothers. They said - "woke" was a moment of enlightenment, rather like the Buddhist concept of immediate enlightnment, the Japanese call it 頓悟 == tongo.
When a Black child, or any other victim of racism, first learns of it, these men said, it's academic, as it is for White people.
But when that Black child becomes the victim of racism, it comes into focus. They hate me!
2/ this was in 1977