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In reply to the discussion: Trump Allies Embrace 'Christian Nationalism' [View all]ancianita
(43,402 posts)15. "Being anti-woke" is being racist, anti-Bible and anti-Christian. DeSantis is like the rest -- making shit up,
not knowing what he's talking about. I've always maintained that he's part of the racist christian nationalist coalition who know exactly that he's referring to Black people and BLM.
So he does know what he's talking about even if media don't. And he knew that, too, which is why he spread his evil perversion in the first place -- because he knew media wouldn't get it. Now it's left to the honest to clean up his lies about 'woke' and Florida where he says "woke comes to die."
Moreover, the biblical version of "woke," which has been used by Black people for over 100 years, is all over the old and new testaments.
By the mid-20th century, woke had come to mean 'well-informed' or 'aware',[13] especially in a political or cultural sense.[8] The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest such usage to a 1962 New York Times Magazine article titled "If You're Woke You Dig It" by African-American novelist William Melvin Kelley, describing the appropriation of black slang by white beatniks.[8]
Woke had gained more political connotations by 1971 when the play Garvey Lives! by Barry Beckham included the line: "I been sleeping all my life. And now that Mr. Garvey done woke me up, I'm gon' stay woke. And I'm gon help him wake up other black folk."
Woke had gained more political connotations by 1971 when the play Garvey Lives! by Barry Beckham included the line: "I been sleeping all my life. And now that Mr. Garvey done woke me up, I'm gon' stay woke. And I'm gon help him wake up other black folk."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke
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I wish they would apply actual Christian values instead of the ones they've made up
Walleye
Feb 2024
#1
How about explaining what a graven image is. I've never gotten an answer to that one
Walleye
Feb 2024
#4
I lived near the Amish people, and they were against photography on the grounds of that commandment. Never understood it
Walleye
Feb 2024
#26
As an old lit teacher, I hold to Camus' idea that "Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth."
ancianita
Feb 2024
#28
So much of religion is gross, evil and the maker of wars and hostilities. A truly civilized
RKP5637
Feb 2024
#7