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Understanding the term 'woke'

I know many people don’t understand what the term “WOKE” means. It is used quite frequently by today’s generation and in today’s news. First, to understand WOKE, let's look at the word. WOKE is the past tense of wake or awake. So WOKE as used today is to awaken to something consciously, not physically. In other words, you now realize something you probably new but were not conscious of.

Now how is the term WOKE used by today's generation? This generation is becoming conscious, or awake to something they knew but was not aware of (conscious). Nothing wrong with that except what they are aware of is Marxist socialism. Something that has failed in several countries. Let the government supply everything free but don’t interfere with our lives. Let us live our lives the way we want to no matter if it infringes on other people’s lives and beliefs. In fact, let's make everyone else believe the way we do. Let us force socialism on everyone. Thus the term “critical consciousness” They WOKE up to criticize our system of capitalism. They don’t want it, so nobody can have it. The sad thing is this is being promoted by some of our best colleges by socialistic professors and it is effecting our youth.

Thayer Donovan, Middletown