Stay woke

Stay woke means to understand the real world and to look everything and think twice because things can change in a second, to look deep and know what to permanently take something into your life, to know everything that’s fake or sus around you and to know when to cut people off .

Stay woke means to understand the real world and to look everything and think twice because things can change in a second, to look deep and know what to permanently take something into your life, to know everything that’s fake or sus around you and to know when to cut people off .

Something used in the racial movements and something my middle school basketball coach says on defense

Phrase used to make sure people around you are aware of reality like the fact that the moon landing was faked or the fact the 9/11 was a government conspiracy or the fact the communists still run around the U.S.

A form of ghetto CPR given in form of a encouraging phrase, sometimes accompanied by clapping of hands by the person doing the encouraging, rather than in a useful life saving procedure that can actually save a life. Usually told to a poor soul that got ventilated by Police, a rival rapper or any one else with a grudge, and is used by friends or family members who want to see their friend or relative stay alive, but can't or won't render proper medical aid for whatever reason.

First used in 1938 by Huddie William Ledbetter ‘Lead Belly’ in Scotsboro Boys. The phrase was repeated, by a union official, in 1940 to J Saunders Redding, who used it in an academic article in 1942. When Redding wrote “stay woke”, he meant stay alert for injustice, discrimination, prejudice, unfairness, to anyone, irrespective of race, colour, religion, sexual orientation or anything else.

Deriving from "stay awake," to stay woke is to keep informed of the shitstorm going on around you in times of turmoil and conflict, specifically on occasions when the media is being heavily filtered- such as the events in Ferguson Missouri in August 2014.