Sweet Baby Inc doesn’t even remotely do what many think it does, but on the modern internet, that doesn’t matter

  • nothead@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The term as it is defined today was invented by a militant black terrorist group called the Nuwabian Nation, a subsect of the Moors (sovereign citizens focused on their African heritage).

    The word has been used by black Americans for at least a century as a synonym form"awake", but its definition as a political concept was first used publicly by the founder of the nuwabians, Dwight York.

    • blackstampede@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      This is not correct.

      The word “woke” as a political term predates that group- York started trying to found a group in 1967, and “woke” was first used to warn black men of threats from racially motivated whites in 1931, by a singer named Lead Belly, then even more directly as a political term in 1971 in a play called “Garvey Lives!”

      Whether York used it that way or not, it’s clear that he didn’t invent the usage.

      I’m pulling most of this info from Wikipedia and Google to save anyone else reading the effort.