How 'woke' became the least woke word in U.S. English (on Marcus Garvey) – Repeating Islands
An Op-Ed piece by Bijan C. Bayne for The Washington Post. You want to talk about Black history? Well, here’s a bit of etymology about a word that everyone’s been using but few have gotten quite right. The word is “woke,” which — in an appropriation akin to using the expression “the man” when one is the…