00:00Staying woke means making sure that you're tuned in to your community, that you are doing everything that you can to not only educate yourself, but to bring someone else along, to ensure that we all have the same information. It's not enough to be woke on your own. You need to help someone else along to also get woke.
00:21Woke is about a state of mind. It's not a new concept. We just started calling it something new because that's what black folks do. But I think W.E.B. Du Bois said it best, right? It's about a double consciousness, but it's consciousness most of all. And I think that's what it's really about. It's applying that consciousness to real action.
00:40I grew up with a mother and father who always taught me to understand that I was a black woman in this nation, to understand my position as what they think I should be and what I could be.
00:57And knowing that, understanding what I was taught, I also understood that was for everyone. But in these last couple of months, we've seen more challenges. And I think it's more incumbent upon us as media to make sure that those who listen, read, or watch us, that they know the stakes are high and that they are affected and that they are part of the equation.
01:25The idea of woke, I think people start giving themselves way too much credit. Because in that moment, they're like, oh, well, I'm a good person. I'm woke because I happen to finally understand that privilege is a thing.
01:39And then their actions didn't lead to it. So I kind of want to pull that word back to be like, no, no, no, no. And reclaim it and be like, no, y'all can't use it.
01:49Because it's clear, like numbers tell us that all these woke people ain't really woke. Because if woke means doing the things that make sense, that shows that you love black people, that shows that you find the humanity in people, you want to protect it, y'all ain't been woke.
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