As Republicans all across the country discount and disparage the ‘woke’ influence in our everyday lives, let’s consider what some ‘woke’ folks did in the past that affect all of us today.
Let’s get one thing straight …
Employers and Corporations did not feel generous and decide to give you two days off every week to have a social/personal life. (We now call them weekends). Corporations did not just feel like being nice one day and give their employees paid vacations. CEOs didn’t get together in a board room and say “Let’s give our employees more rights at work” or “Maybe there should be laws to limit our power over an employee.”
Virtually ALL the benefits you have at work, whether you work in the public or private sector, all of the benefits and rights you enjoy everyday are there because unions fought hard and long for them against big business who did everything they could to prevent giving you your rights. Many union leaders and members even lost their lives for things we take for granted today.
– Michael Ronquillo on Medium
And, updating Ronquillo’s next statement for today:
The right-wing attack on ‘wokeness’ is nothing more than ignorance, lack of education, and propaganda.
There is an old Turkish proverb: “Fear an ignorant man more than a lion.”
Just-announced Republican presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis calls ‘woke’ a “war on the Truth.” And he’s right: it’s a war on his and Republicans’ invented truth.
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