2: Why Did 'Woke' Become the Enemy Instead of Injustice?

Guest InformationShari Dunn (She/Her/Hers), Author and CEO/Principal ITBOM LLCWebsite: https://thesharidunn.com/Instagram: @thesharidunn.com6Bluesky: @qualified-sharid.bsky.socialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharidunn/Substack: https://sharidunn.substack.com/Recording and ProductionProduction Studio: Sasquatch Media Grounds @sasquatchmediagroundsOriginal Music: Rainezra @rainezra and Vews @pointofvewsAudio Editing by: Kye Gilmer @residual_audioLearn More/SourcesThe following materials were referenced or informed this episode. Links are provided for transparency and further reading.Lead Belly, “Scottsboro Boys” (1938), Library of Congresshttps://www.loc.gov/item/jukebox-15460/William Melvin Kelley, “If You’re Woke You Dig It,” New York Times Magazine (1962)https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it.htmlMerriam-Webster, “The History and Meaning of ‘Woke’”https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/woke-meaning-originSnopes, “Origins of the Term ‘Stay Woke’”https://www.snopes.com/articles/464795/origins-term-stay-woke/Erykah Badu, “Master Teacher” (2008)https://open.spotify.com/track/2ZqTz3tqZLqI6HnHqG2KcBPowell v. Alabama (1932), U.S. Supreme Courthttps://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/287/45/Norris v. Alabama (1935), U.S. Supreme Courthttps://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/294/587/Emmett Till, National Museum of African American History and Culturehttps://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/emmett-tillJim Crow laws, National Archiveshttps://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/jim-crowCivil Rights Act of 1964, U.S. Department of Justicehttps://www.justice.gov/crt/civil-rights-act-1964Voting Rights Act of 1965, U.S. Department of Justicehttps://www.justice.gov/crt/voting-rights-act-1965Fair Housing Act of 1968, U.S. Department of Justicehttps://www.justice.gov/crt/fair-housing-act-1Redlining maps and history, Mapping Inequality Project (University of Richmond)https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/Gallup polling on Martin Luther King Jr.’s public approvalhttps://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/229376/gallup-vault-martin-luther-king-jr.aspxMartin Luther King Jr., “Beyond Vietnam” speech (1967), Stanford King Institutehttps://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/beyond-vietnamFBI COINTELPRO records on Martin Luther King Jr.https://vault.fbi.gov/Martin%20Luther%20King%2C%20Jr.Malcolm X background and post–Nation of Islam work, Stanford King Institutehttps://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/malcolm-xJohn Lewis and Bloody Sunday at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, National Park Servicehttps://www.nps.gov/articles/bloody-sunday-edmund-pettus-bridge.htmExecutive Order 10925 (1961), The American Presidency Projecthttps://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-10925Executive Order 11246 (1965), U.S. Department of Laborhttps://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/executive-order-11246Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), U.S. Supreme Courthttps://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/438/265/U.S. Department of Justice, Ferguson Report (2015)https://www.justice.gov/opa/file/800146/downloadPew Research Center, Black Lives Matter coverage and pollinghttps://www.pewresearch.org/topic/race-ethnicity/black-lives-matter/U.S. Census Bureau, racial wealth gap datahttps://www.census.gov/topics/income-poverty/wealth.htmlFederal Reserve, Survey of Consumer Financeshttps://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htmCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, maternal mortality by racehttps://www.cdc.gov/maternal-mortality/php/data-research/index.htmlU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, environmental justicehttps://www.epa.gov/environmentaljusticeBureau of Justice Statistics, race and sentencing datahttps://bjs.ojp.gov/topics/race-and-ethnicityFlorida Stop WOKE Act (HB 7, 2022), Florida Senatehttps://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7Florida Parental Rights in Education Act (2022), Florida Senatehttps://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1557PEN America, educational censorship and gag order reportshttps://pen.org/report/educational-gag-orders/ACLU of Florida, analysis of anti-DEI lawshttps://www.aclufl.org/en/issues/free-speech/stop-woke-actNew York Times reporting on Ron DeSantis and “wokeness”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/us/politics/desantis-woke-florida.htmlNational Archives, “Reconstruction: Carpetbaggers, Scalawags, and the Ku Klux Klan”https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/reconstructionSmithsonian National Museum of American History, Reconstruction Era overviewhttps://americanhistory.si.edu/reconstruction-eraLibrary of Congress, Reconstruction primary sources and essayshttps://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/civil-war-and-reconstruction-1861-1877/reconstruction/Support the ShowAll American Why is independently produced and listener supported.If you value conversations that center nuance, critical thinking, and honest inquiry, you ...