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Aave

woke

What does woke mean?

Alert and awake to social injustice, especially racism. The original sense is "stay aware"; the word has since been pulled in many political directions.

"The song was a call to stay woke about what was happening."

Origin

AAVE, traced to the 1930s and popularised by the phrase "stay woke"; central to 2010s civil-rights discourse.

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