MSNBC Claims ‘Woke’ Is GOP’s Way of Saying ‘Black’ Or ‘The N-Word’

MSNBC’s Jose Diaz-Balart welcomed correspondent and podcaster Trymaine Lee to his Wednesday program to preview the GOP debate by focusing on the word “woke,” and how according to one of Lee’s guests, Republicans have turned it into “another way of saying black” or “the N-word.”

Kicking things off, Diaz-Balart declared that “when the Republican presidential candidates take the stage in Milwaukee there’s one word voters should expect to hear: “woke.”

He then introduced Lee and asked, “The word “’woke’ means so many different things to different people. Where’s it come from?

Lee relayed that, “for generations the term “woke” was a part of black American inspeak, it meant to keep your eyes open, stay aware to the forces that might be around you that might want to cause you harm, be vigilant, but in recent years it’s been co-opted, some would say hijacked by far right-wing conservatives and turned into anything, but a feeling of awareness or awareness.”

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For the pre-recorded video, Lee interviewed two people—one man and one woman— who were never identified either in a voiceover or by MSNBC’s chyron. The woman declared that, “It’s almost another way of saying black. It is another way of saying the N-word.”

Of course it is, just like everything else they don’t approve of.

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