To The Man Who Called Me Woke

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To the white man who co-opted a phrase intended to celebrate the ability to be open to a myriad of points of view and experiences and called me “woke” as a pejorative insult, as an accusation that I am naive and judgmental, I ask, “How, sir, can you be asleep?”

How can you be asleep when the news flashes another mass shooting, another bombing, another youth slaughtered, another death of a police officer, or…