Kevin Roberts studied Black survival, then helped weaponize the cultural term “woke.” But woke was never the problem. Sleepwalking through a dangerous nation built on anti-Black laws, Black Codes, convict leasing, and white mob violence was the problem then, and willful ignorance is still the danger now.

Before conservatives weaponized it, ‘woke’ meant being alert to systemic dangers

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Before conservatives weaponized it, ‘woke’ meant being alert to systemic dangers

Before conservatives weaponized it, ‘woke’ meant being alert to systemic dangers