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Michael David Cobb Bowen's avatar

It's interesting here to point out that one of the things the Woke cannot stand is real cultural criticism from within their pet dimensions. Specifically, how they absolutely need racial unanimity from black Americans despite the fact that black Americans have been pushing against that since the 80s when the majority of black college graduates no longer came from HBCUs. The extent to which millions of black American *desired* mainstream inclusion *without* multicultural authenticity is something they must vilify. This is exactly why Coleman Hughes gets metaphorically shot in the head. The calls for internal racial unity and authenticity of black people is that deeply rooted, and wokeness is the latest expression. If these particular woke black Americans cannot energize the cultural and political ties they assume all blacks must for our own very survival, then all of their claims fall short.

Maybe I should write about it.

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Jim Trageser's avatar

Quick reaction is that Woke ideology also misidentifies the seats of power - so that in the woke model the poor white family holds power over the tenured black University prof. And of course, a central tenet of wokeism is that the woke adherents always cling to their self-identification as outsiders fighting the establishment - even though wokeism is the current religion OF the establishment. It is a spectacle of the ridiculous.

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