In 2020 after George Floyd's murder there was this open conversation about race in a way that I hadn't seen in my lifetime. That summer white people were finally talking out loud about the ways in which structural racism shows up in our everyday lives. And then what happens between it being used in black vernacular as something of a joke and it becoming a political cudgel? We will never ever surrender to the woke mob. Florida is where woke ghosts can die.
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.
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