Gov. DeSantis has offered a negative, indecipherable definition of what it is to be woke. Yes, the way the word is used, it comes over from the African American community where it has been used for at least a generation. It became a white American term in Minneapolis the summer George Floyd was murdered.
White young adults joined the BLM demonstrations and men dressed in reservist-type garb kidnapped and held some of them because they looked like the leaders of the white demonstrators. The next night, the mothers of those young demonstrators hit the streets to also march with the BLM people. Those reservist-type enforcers used teargas on the lines of moms. So the next night, the BLM marchers were joined by the young adults, their moms, and their dads who carried leaf blowers.
Some Black preacher used the word "woke" to describe the white folks and it stuck.
The "woke" are people who care about justice and care about each other, even across racial lines. Gov. DeSantis should have been in Minneapolis that summer to learn the meaning of the word.
