Quick Take: How "Woke" Has Evolved

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Karen Hunter speaks with Michael Steele about seeing the human in each other, how the word "woke" has evolved and Michael's time as Chairman of the Republican National Committee.

This is an excerpt from the episode "Turning Toward Each Other, Not On Each Other: With Karen Hunter."

Karen Hunter is a best-selling author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the host of The Karen Hunter Show on Sirius XM Urban View Channel 126, which airs M-F from 3-6pmET.

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0:00.0	Hey, Michael Steel Podcast listeners, Michael Steel here with another quick take from the
0:12.5	Michael Steel Podcast.
0:14.3	Check out what's going on right now.
0:16.8	Welcome back everybody to the Michael Steel Podcast.
0:19.2	I told y'all this was going to be unlike the conversation you thought it was going to
0:25.0	be because the sister is one from the very first moment I met her and she called me out.
0:32.0	Did I not remember doing it?
0:34.0	No, but it wasn't it wasn't a negative.
0:36.2	I mean, it was it was the one thing I can say about you.
0:39.8	You've always been consistent even though your show may have all developed and done all
0:44.4	these gone through all these permutations as things do.
0:48.2	The consistent thread with you has always been about pushing people to be honest about
0:55.8	what they are and who they are.
0:58.4	You talked about cancel culture and all that.
1:01.8	I recall back in what was it, I think it was 2018.
1:04.6	You were part of the Essence magazine's Woke 100.
1:11.9	The Woke 100 list.
1:15.3	Clearly that's changed.
1:18.4	The meaning of that term is changed.
1:20.4	I guess the question is how do you look at what that meant then in 2018?
1:29.0	I look at it the way I look at Rolling Stones top 100 best singers.
1:34.5	It's there for the clicks and algorithms.
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