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See the Wikipedia link below, it seems to have been in use in African American Vernacular English as early as the 1930s, though then mostly in the literal sense of 'awake', and more in its current sense as from the 1960s and 70s.
See the Wikipedia link below, it seems to have been in use in African American Vernacular English as early as the 1930s, though then mostly in the literal sense of 'awake', and more in its current sense as from the 1960s and 70s.
Any further than I can throw a cinder block....
But then isn't a fairly big chunk of African American vernacular English just miss-used or miss-pronounced English (either from a lack of education or on purpose)?
Is that something that we should really emulate? Ignorance (either willful or purposeful)
~Jeordam
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Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture
- 10/10/2018 07:28:00 PM
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We hate the term “woke “ as well.
- 10/10/2018 08:05:14 PM
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Funny you should mention this....
- 10/10/2018 09:08:28 PM
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Now you got me looking up the etymology of 'woke'. It's interesting, though.
- 10/10/2018 09:43:49 PM
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Not that I trust Wikipedia
- 10/10/2018 10:01:49 PM
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Re: Not that I trust Wikipedia
- 10/10/2018 11:17:16 PM
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That was also interesting - knew some of it, but some was news to me. *NM*
- 10/10/2018 11:32:30 PM
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I don't think "woke" comes from that, though. You sound like you read Albion's Seed.
- 11/10/2018 01:07:50 AM
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Not directly. I've read other stuff here and there that cited that work, though *NM*
- 15/10/2018 06:04:34 PM
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I was familiar with the lyric in the Lead Belly song because I love me some Delta blues.
- 10/10/2018 10:05:51 PM
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Wait, so you hate the term 'woke' but you just accused yourself of cultural appropriation? 
*NM*
- 10/10/2018 11:00:25 PM
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*NM*
- 10/10/2018 11:00:25 PM
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not necessarily me although yes, I have to a degree. More whites in general.
- 11/10/2018 01:01:31 AM
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"African American vernacular" is PC for "grammatically incorrect used mostly by blacks"
- 11/10/2018 01:06:01 AM
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