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Then-United States Congresswoman Marcia Fudge holding a T-shirt reading "Stay Woke: Vote" in 2018 Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) originally meaning alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination. Beginning in the 2010s, it came to be used as slang for a broader awareness of social inequalities such as racial injustice, sexism, and denial of LGBT ...
Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote. Yamamoto in 1940. Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quotation is a film quote by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto regarding the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by forces of Imperial Japan . The quotation is portrayed at the very end of the 1970 film Tora! Tora!
The U.S. military discharged soldiers for homosexual acts throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth century even in the absence of any explicit prohibition of sodomy.The Articles of War of the United States of 1916, implemented on March 1, 1917, included Article 93 stating that any person subject to military law who committed "assault with intent to commit sodomy" shall be punished as a court ...
Recent Republican moves to limit diversity training and transgender rights and other hot-button controversies stemming from the annual defense authorization bill remind me of my own days in ...
Additionally, nearly half (48%) of survey respondents ages 50-64 defined “woke” as “being overly politically correct,” while only 33% of respondents ages 18-34 said the same. While there ...
This isn’t going to be more musing about whether America has reached “peak woke.”But that is part of the story. So let’s start there. About a decade ago, many on the left embraced the word ...
Reveille. " Reveille " ( US: / ˈrɛvəli / REV-əl-ee, UK: / rɪˈvæli / rih-VAL-ee ), [1] called in French "Le Réveil" is a bugle call, trumpet call, drum, fife-and-drum or pipes call most often associated with the military; it is chiefly used to wake military personnel at sunrise. The name comes from réveille (or réveil ), the French ...
July 29, 2024 at 2:26 PM. U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said the "woke ideology" is distracting the American military, specifically pushing back against federal spending on gender-affirming surgery during a ...