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Go woke, go broke, or alternatively get woke, go broke, is an American political catchphrase used by right-wing groups to criticize and boycott businesses publicly supporting progressive policies, including empowering women, LGBT people and critical race theory ("going woke"), claiming that stock value and business performance will inevitably suffer ("going broke") as a result of adopting ...
The phrase was popularized after Justice Brett Kavanaugh's nomination hearings in 2018. Rainbow wave, a phrase to describe the record number of openly LGBT candidates for office in the 2018 midterm elections (over 400), [57] and in increasing numbers since that year (over 1,000 each in 2020 and 2022). [58] [59]
The word "woke" is tossed around a lot in political and social debates all around the country. It's ramping up as Election Day draws near. The term carries different meanings and strong emotional ...
Folk singer-songwriter Lead Belly used the phrase "stay woke" on a recording of his song "Scottsboro Boys". Among the earliest uses of the idea of wokeness as a concept for black political consciousness came from Jamaican philosopher and social activist Marcus Garvey, [2] who wrote in 1923, "Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa!" [2] [6]
"Woke," a term singer Erykah Badu reinvigorated in the late aughts on the track "Master Teacher," has since taken on "a life of its own," and she believes it has become a put-down for Black people.
Another musician told me Kim had brought her to LA to audition to replace me in The Runaways, but told her if she wanted to be in the band she had to sleep with him. Others told me similar stories. I was especially surprised by a voicemail I got from someone who had not had just known Kim, but who had been very close to him for decades.
Things reached a fever pitch when the woman said she woke up sick and once again, her husband had taken the extra sets of house and car keys, leaving her trapped in her home. ... to upgrade your ...
"Woke Up This Morning" is a song by British band Alabama 3 from their 1997 album Exile on Coldharbour Lane. The song is best known as the opening theme music for the American television series The Sopranos , which used a shortened version of the "Chosen One Mix" of the song.