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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ' war on "woke ideology" has resulted in the banning of an advanced placement class in African American studies.
LZ Granderson : The word was used as a warning to be aware of racial injustices in general and Southern white folks in particular.
He says being woke was part of the unwritten vocabulary that Black people established to talk with each other in a way that outsiders could not understand.
Granderson says it's unclear when exactly “woke” became a word of Black consciousness.
Ronald Hall : The memory of the Scottsboro Boys has remained a part of Black consciousness.
Martin Luther King Jr. used a version of woke during his commencement address at Oberlin College in 1965 .
Use of the word has ebbed and flowed throughout Black culture but became popular again in 2014 during the protest marches organized by Black Lives Matter in the wake of the shooting death of Michael Brown .
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