If you're not woke, you're asleep

PoliTalker said:
Hello cawacko,



We would like to make changes such as teach our actual history in schools instead of whitewashing it. Gimme a chance to vote for that and I'll show you action behind the words. And I bet I'm not alone.

White supremacists who don't want confederate statues torn down are hypocrites when they say they don't want history erased but that is precisely what they support when it comes to the local school board and they don't want anything about slavery or mistreatment of blacks to be included in curricula.
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Here is one woke mofo, it oozes out of every pore.
 
Jarod said:
It means you are not asleep to the reality of the world.
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Do yourself a favour and get a copy of White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era by Shelby Steele. If anybody suffers from White Guilt it's you and a handful of others.

Description
Product Description
"Not unlike some of Ralph Ellison’s or Richard Wright’s best work. White Guilt, a serious meditation on vital issues, deserves a wide readership.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer

In 1955 the killers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted because they were white. Forty years later, despite the strong DNA evidence against him, accused murderer O. J. Simpson went free after his attorney portrayed him as a victim of racism. The age of white supremacy has given way to an age of white guilt—and neither has been good for African Americans.

Through articulate analysis and engrossing recollections, acclaimed race relations scholar Shelby Steele sounds a powerful call for a new culture of personal responsibility.

Review
“For those who do not already know, this elegant essay will show why Shelby Steele is America’s clearest thinker about America’s most difficult problem. Braiding family memories with an acute understanding of national policies, he demonstrates what went wrong when whites for their reasons, and blacks for theirs, embraced the idea that white guilt explains blacks’ problems and can be the basis of policies for ameliorating them.” — Newsweek

“With his characteristic honesty, clarity and hard-won wisdom, Shelby Steele exposes the social hypocrisies and racial lies that transformed the once promising post-civil rights era into a period of cultural decadence and mediocrity. We owe Citizen Steele our thanks. On questions of race in America—white guilt, black opportunism—he is our twenty-first century Socrates: the powerful, lucid and elegant voice of a refreshingly independent thinker who desires only to see us liberated from sophistry and self-destructive illusions.” — Charles Johnson, author of MIDDLE PASSAGE, National Book Award winner

“There is no writer who deserves black America’s allegiance more than Shelby Steele... Steele’s writing is a marvel.” — John McWhorter, National Review

“Breathtakingly insightful . . . Anyone concerned with the endless standoff that is black-white relations in this country has a duty to read Shelby Steele’s brief, brilliant new book, White Guilt.” — Chicago Sun-Times

“Prophet or polemicist, Steele is a graceful and often compelling literary stylist . . . The effect is not unlike some of Ralph Ellison’s or Richard Wright’s best work. White Guilt, a serious meditation on vital issues, deserves a wide readership.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Piercing and personal... White Guilt is a brilliant little essay, deserving of a large and appreciative audience.” — Washington Times

“As delightful a read as one can find on a book devoted to America’s historically most contentious topic. It is a true gift to find a work that combines a light tone and sharp anecdotes to make the reader repeatedly say, ‘Of course!’” — New York Post

“Thought provoking.” — Library Journal

“Steele has given eloquent voice to painful truths that are almost always left unspoken in the nation’s circumscribed public discourse on race.” — New York Times

“A hard, critical look at affirmative action, self-serving white liberals and self-victimizing black leaders.” — Publishers Weekly

“Psychologically brilliant. . . . An autobiographical meditation on why a significant portion of the black population hasn’t been able to take advantage of the freedoms that belatedly came to it.” — New York Sun

“The cultural analysis of America’s loss of moral authority for its exposed racism has resonance today.” — Booklist

“This is an essay. . . but it is no less valuable for that. . . . The struggle is far from resolved. And, as it continues, we are lucky to have Shelby Steele in it.” — Weekly Standard

From the Back Cover
In 1955 the killers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted because they were white. Forty years later, despite the strong DNA evidence against him, accused murderer O. J. Simpson went free after his attorney portrayed him as a victim of racism. The age of white supremacy has given way to an age of white guilt—and neither has been good for African Americans.

Through articulate analysis and engrossing recollections, acclaimed race relations scholar Shelby Steele sounds a powerful call for a new culture of personal responsibility.

About the Author
Shelby Steele is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and Stanford University, and is a contributing editor at Harper's magazine. His many prizes and honors include the National Book Critics Circle Award, an Emmy Award, a Writers Guild Award, and the National Humanities Medal.

https://www.amazon.com/White-Guilt-Together-Destroyed-Promise/dp/0060578637
 
Geeko Sportivo said:
True, if we are being literal here. But, that plane left the station about the time the Trump Era began.

ANTI-Woke-ism is now the new version of McCarthyism!

Woke is a Conspiracy Theory the TRUMPTARDS have morphed into a TOXIC POISON they are using on the campaign trail, to say that the Democrats are poisoning everything in their little small world with woke-ism.

Anti-Wokeism is the new TRUMP ERA SNAKE OIL- TRUMP AND ALL OF HIS TRUMPTARDED WANNABE'S ARE SELLING ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL!

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Here's another one that needs to read Shelby Steele!!

https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...-not-woke-you-re-asleep&p=5537582#post5537582
 
BartenderElite said:
Shout-out to the mighty Al Sharpton for this excellent observation.

Conservatives are better at marketing & messaging. They took "woke" and made it a dirty word. They redefined it.

At it's core, its reference is being more well-informed, more aware and more conscious about political & social issues. Democrats need to push back on the "anti-woke" zeal sweeping through the right-wingers and re-claim the message.

So, Florida is where "woke goes to die?" That means you're ignorant there? You're asleep?
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Obvious troll thread. Woke???? :rolleyes:

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Good old Saint Al,....the guy who called Greek people " a bunch of fags" To say nothing about all the mayhem he caused with all the lies he told in the Tawana Brawley case. He should be in jail.
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cawacko said:
You actually speak a lot of truth here. It reached a tipping point where even many liberals would called someone a tool who walked around with their nose in the air proclaiming themselves to be politically correct.

Now it’s just been replaced with woke. But it’s more of a pronouncement than anything else. It’s easy to declare yourself woke because it doesn’t require you to do anything. It just makes you feel good and like you are on the “right side”.

But when people have to make changes to their lifestyles then all of a sudden “being woke” gets pushed to the wayside. Words are a lot easier than actions.
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What do you mean by "make changes to their lifestyles?"
 
Hello cawacko,

cawacko said:
You actually speak a lot of truth here. It reached a tipping point where even many liberals would called someone a tool who walked around with their nose in the air proclaiming themselves to be politically correct.

Now it’s just been replaced with woke. But it’s more of a pronouncement than anything else. It’s easy to declare yourself woke because it doesn’t require you to do anything. It just makes you feel good and like you are on the “right side”.

But when people have to make changes to their lifestyles then all of a sudden “being woke” gets pushed to the wayside. Words are a lot easier than actions.
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Being woke does require the individual to do something, unless claiming to be woke is made under false pretenses.

It requires one to treat others of different cultures evenly and fairly; and avoid trying to enact legislation meant to tell others how to live.
 
BartenderElite said:
Shout-out to the mighty Al Sharpton for this excellent observation.

Conservatives are better at marketing & messaging. They took "woke" and made it a dirty word. They redefined it.

At it's core, its reference is being more well-informed, more aware and more conscious about political & social issues. Democrats need to push back on the "anti-woke" zeal sweeping through the right-wingers and re-claim the message.

So, Florida is where "woke goes to die?" That means you're ignorant there? You're asleep?
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Al Sharpton????????????????????????? That tax cheating., proven lying sack of shit? You seriously are relying on this word????????????????????????????????? My God are you fucking stupid. And of course those that "thanked" you for this idiocy. God help you all.
 
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