Ep. 670 - When white racists say something is "too woke" they clearly mean it's too Black.

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Racist and conservative white people all over the world are LOSING THEIR MINDS over the new Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones television shows. And in doing so, they've really told on themselves.

They keep saying that these new shows are "too woke," but what's wild is that the shows aren't really woke at all. They are the same shows they've always been, but simply with new Black characters. And what's wild is that these new Black characters, in these mystical, fictional lands, aren't even the lead roles.

White folk are going CRAZY that Black folk even have bit roles in fantasy lands that they clearly preferred to be "whites only."

But it's all actually VERY revealing and insightful. Over and over again, they keep saying these shows are super woke - when it's obvious they simply mean the shows are now a little Black.

Now, when you hear white leaders talk about how much they hate wokeness, just know, they mean Blackness.

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0:41.0	Now, maybe you already caught on to this,
0:44.0	it took me a little while to understand it,
0:46.0	but I've been slowly studying this for the past few weeks.
0:50.0	And it's clear to me now that when conservative white people say,
0:55.0	something is woke, it appears they mean they're saying it's too black.
1:02.0	They are interchanging the words woke and black.
1:07.0	I want to teach you how it's abundantly clear to me.
1:11.0	In some ways I feel like they slipped up and did this.
1:15.0	Not interchanging the words, but they kind of have told on themselves
1:20.0	over the past few weeks, and it is clear.
1:24.0	When they keep saying something is too woke,
1:28.0	they're just saying it centers black people in some kind of way.
1:32.0	Let me unpack and explain it.
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