Woke

A few years back the Black Lives Matter movement coined the adjective “woke.” This argot meant “up with the struggle” (even if based on deception), generally the black struggle. Obviously this word’s derivation suggests it evolved from waking up ... and it has been adopted by the woke talking heads throughout the cable TV industry. It has become a badge of hipness.

This observer finds it curious that many of these woke talking heads are white ... presumably enjoying white privilege. Yet they feel compelled to appropriate this idiom to demonstrate their inclusive skills ... a possible indication of black privilege?  This borrowing is just one of many such cross pollinations over the recent decades. Perhaps there really is some amalgamation of our two Americas taking place.