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in 1938 folk singer Lead Belly used the phrase "stay woke, keep your eyes open" in a spoken afterward to his song "Scottsboro Boys" (about nine black teenagers falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931), warning people who travel to the area
GOP coopted the term as a dog whistle with a twist: opposition to awareness of systemic racism, metastasizing into meaning anything they hate
here's Lead Belly in the afterword to his song: https://youtu.be/VrXfkPViFIE?t=265 (12 seconds from the end of the recording)
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2023-08-06 00:56:43
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2023-08-06 00:56:43Event JSON
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