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Today, Explained

Woke, woke, woke, woke, woke

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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How “woke” went from Marcus Garvey to Childish Gambino to Ron DeSantis. This episode was produced by Siona Peterous, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today explained, I'm Sean Ramisfer and I'm standing outside the White House

0:05.4

because a lot of people who are running to live in this house in 2024 are

0:10.2

obsessed with the word woke so I thought I'd come out here and ask people what

0:15.0

exactly that word mean. Being awake? Yeah, well maybe somebody want to be

0:22.6

attentive then you want to convey that message to woke up body. People who are

0:27.1

willing to recognize and convey the essential dignity of every human being. To

0:34.4

signify like an awareness of racial issues especially for black Americans.

0:38.6

Someone who can see through the facade of others. It's ironic the people who are

0:43.5

woke are the ones who are actually asleep. You've bought into an agenda that's

0:48.6

being pushed by liberal extreme leftism. It's all bullshit. It's all bullshit.

0:55.1

Coming up on today explained what woke means to just about everybody.

1:06.3

Explained 2024 explained. When we want to talk to someone about the

1:10.8

outside's presence the word woke has in the 2024 Republican primary we thought

1:16.2

of a stead herndon. He's the host of the run-up podcast at the New York Times.

1:21.4

So you've surely noticed that instead of running against Joe Biden it seems like a

1:26.9

lot of Republicans are running against the word woke and the idea of

1:31.3

wokeness. Absolutely. I mean ever since Biden came into office they've been

1:35.5

trying to find a thing to stick to him. He's not a figure that was as

1:40.6

personally enraging as Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton the villains they had

1:45.7

in the past. And the Republican kind of ideological core has been to

1:50.5

really find a way to invalidate the other side in that kind of villainous

1:56.0

manner. And so I think you've had Republicans searching for what that's going to

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