“WOKE”

Is Not A Threat — You Are

Let’s clear this up once and for all.

“Woke” is not a slur. It’s not an insult. It’s not some sinister agenda creeping through schools and sitcoms. It’s awareness. That’s it. The entire definition of being “woke” is simply being awake to injustice, awake to reality, and awake to the systems most people would rather pretend don’t exist.

That’s all.

And if that offends you — if you think that being aware is a threat — then you’re part of the problem.

The word “woke” originated in African American Vernacular English as a warning: stay woke. Stay alert. Stay conscious. Stay alive. Because systems of oppression thrive when people are asleep at the wheel. When they don’t notice the pattern. When they excuse abuse as “just the way things are.”

Over time, as awareness grew and more people began to wake up to systemic racism, police brutality, wealth inequality, and environmental collapse, the term spread. And then — predictably — it was attacked.

Because awareness is dangerous to the status quo.

So what did the Power Elite do? It ridiculed the word. It weaponized it. It turned “woke” into a punchline — into something soft, laughable, extreme. Just like it always does when language threatens to wake people up.

Let’s be clear: If you’re rolling your eyes at the word ‘woke,’ you’re not being edgy. You’re being manipulated. You’re doing the heavy lifting for the Power Elite — those who benefit from your blindness. You’re defending outdated systems of control that have never served you.

Being “woke” doesn’t mean being perfect. It means you’re paying attention. It means you’re not sleepwalking through your privilege. It means you’ve noticed that some people are in cages, some people are in food deserts, and some people are dying while others make record profits.

If that awareness makes you uncomfortable, good. Growth is uncomfortable. Evolution is uncomfortable. That doesn’t make it wrong. That makes it necessary.

This isn’t about being “too sensitive.” This is about being too late.

We are standing at the edge of ecological, economic, and moral collapse. And the people sneering at “wokeness” are the ones slowing us down — dragging us backwards into willful ignorance, cultural denial, and manufactured outrage.

They are the ones laughing at the fire alarm while the house burns down.

The future needs people who are awake, alert, and adaptive. People who can hold complexity. People who can listen. People who can evolve.

So ask yourself: do you want to defend your comfort, or do you want to wake up?

Because the world doesn’t need more sleepwalkers with strong opinions. It needs conscious minds, clear eyes, and enough courage to face the truth — even when it’s ugly, especially when it’s uncomfortable.

Woke isn’t the threat.

You are, if you stay asleep.