Transnationalism. Globalism. Universalism. Scientism. Transhumanism. Communism. Socialism. Predicate. Exculpatory. Disintermediation, Memes. Stove piping. Intersectionality. Orwellian. Emoluments. Gaslighting. Shadow banning. Doxing. Projection. Throwing shade. Star Chambers. Transphobia. Xenophobia. Mansplaining. WOKEISM. We are fairly confident that the majority of citizens within our Nation have no clear understanding of most of these words as they proliferate and morph into new meanings. Some of these new meanings are insidious attempts to re-define our society and can lead to a weakening of our freedoms guaranteed to us by The Constitution of the United States of American.
Today, we just want to concentrate on the word WOKE. Generically speaking, it is simply a term referring to an awareness of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (Merriam-Webster dictionary). The origin of the term has its roots in Old English, Germanic, and Dutch, meaning to remain awake or hold a vigil. In African American terms, it became in circulation in the 1800s simply meaning the state of not being asleep. The term started emerging in Black English at least by the 1940’s (dictionary.com). A black United Mine Workers official reportedly was quoted saying “Waking up is a damn sight better than going to sleep, but we’ll stay woke up longer.” (Atlantic article from 1943.) In the 1960s, WOKE was being used in the context of political awareness, especially when referring to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. In 2008, Erykah Badu’s song, Master Teach, features the line “I stay woke (dreams dreams)”. The term most recently has gone through a complete metamorphosis and been used by the Black Lives Matter movement calling for an awareness of social and racial injustices. WOKEISM has become a Marxist process where social humiliation and violence is being used to alter norms, redefine words, and even destroy objective science to create a new Utopian order. This process is establishing a new form of racism, one aimed at those who refuse to walk in step. It is a form of virus infecting the minds of its followers. WOKE was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary in June of 2017. Obviously, like many of the words listed above, there is much more to the history of this word. Unfortunately, WOKE has now become weaponized on both sides of the political aisle. Those on the left claim the true awareness of social and racial issues by being WOKE, while those on the right use the label WOKE to identify those they believe are fixated on issues that tend to separate rather than unite citizens, aiming to redefine the founding principals of our Nation. Where do we go from here?
Regardless of which side of any issue you fall on, it is important to remain open to an ever expanding knowledge base. We have always affirmed that no one can ever guaranty certainty about anything. Unless you possess the proverbial crystal ball, and can view into the future, no one has the insight, ability, or wisdom to make unequivocal statements. There is always room for more learning, more knowledge, being then better able to make a wiser, more reasoned opinion about anything. Even then, one must be careful to not make definitive statements or pronouncements, for as sure as the sun rises in the east, other facts and insights will certainly follow. Leaps to rash, spontaneous judgements leave a person susceptible to having held weak and irrational points of view or opinions, and can hamper one’s credibility. It is only human nature to make initial judgements based on first-blush analysis of anything, but it is incumbent upon everyone to remain open to learning more, and remaining open to reevaluating the initial judgement to refine or even completely change it.
There is one fact that escapes our understanding. Why can we not get along with each other in our Nation? Do you realize that if you claim to be an American, WOKE or not WOKE, there are those in many parts of the world who would not think twice about seeing an end to your life in the most horrible ways imaginable? Yet we often want to treat them better than we treat those who share with us many common bonds, like our freedoms, our Constitution, the name of American. We believe there is a lot to the phrase “familiarity breeds contempt”. Sometimes we treat people on the street better than we treat those who are closest to us, like our spouse, an extended family member, or close personal friend. The more we know about someone, the more there is to like, but also the more there is to dislike, and unfortunately we too often fail to focus on the likes in favor of the dislikes. It has a lot to do with one negative often outweighing several positives. Kind of like one bad apple will spoil the whole barrel. This is just a good reminder to be careful about what we say to one another. We do not want to encourage false complements, but surely there is something that can be truthfully said that is of a positive nature, we just need to think twice before we speak. The dark veil of denialism needs to be removed from those who are ensconced within it, to be able to perceive the greater truths. A clarion call must be made to one’s inner self, calling forth the better nature, the moral center, that which realizes that all are created equal and deserve the same level of respect, for we are all human beings, not one being any better than another.
There is one reality that cannot be escaped. Without freedom, it matters not what level of WOKENESS you may have in whatever topic. Freedoms are being denied by governmental agencies, in concert with sympathizing institutions, pursuing personal agendas, rather than the will of a majority of our Nation’s citizens. IT IS TIME TO TAKE BACK OUR FREEDOMS BY ALL GOING MASK FREE IF POSSIBLE, AND BY ALL BUSINESSES AND INSTITUTIONS FULLY OPENING UP BEGINING JULY 4, 2021.