Since when was woke a bad thing? Martha Brown, Sir Jonathan North Girls' College When was the last time you heard someone use ‘woke’ for anything but an insult? The adjectivewoke originated in African American English, gaining more widespread use in 2014 as part of theBlack Lives Matter movement. Until recently, the word has merely meant being awake to injusticeand inequality in society. However, within the last few years, woke seems to have taken on a newmeaning.
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