(1) What "Woke" Means
I didn't know what "woke" means as used by Afro-Americans. I loosely thought it would mean "awake" or something. I saw a seemingly African-American tweeter use it on two separate occasions, ...
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(2) ... so I got curious, googled it, and saw a Wikipedia on "Woke" give a good presentation, where it says that none other than my beloved the Oxford English Dictionary defines it.
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(3) The world's largest English dictionary gives information about 20 lines long, including the word's definitions as a word as used by African Americans, together with example sentencess. Here's just a fragment of what the dictionary says:
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(4) woke
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2. fig. and in figurative contexts.
Originally: well-informed, up-to-date.
Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice; frequently in "stay woke" (often used as an exhortation).
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(5) In later use perhaps popularized through its association with African-American civil rights activism (in recent years particularly the Black Lives Matter movement), and by the lyrics of the 2008 song "Master Teacher" by American singer-songwriter Erykah Badu, ...
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(6) ... in which the words "I stay woke" serve as a refrain.
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(The OED Online, Third Edition 2017)
Such information as quoted above may be obvious to and unnecessary for U.S. citizens, but not for us learners of English and foreign residents. That's why I quoted it here
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It's part of identity politics. An 'us versus them' mentality.