The term “woke” is constantly thrown around these days by propaganda machines and people who don’t know its true origins. The word really has deep roots in Black history dating all the way back to the early 1900’s.
Why is it that nowadays the word has been construed into all these crazy definitions that don’t correlate at all to its true, basic meaning? Karen Hunter is joined by the first-and only-instructor of Gullah at Harvard, Sunn m’Cheaux, to identify the real meaning of “woke” and why it was taken over.
About Sunn m’Cheaux:
Sunn m’Cheaux was born the middle child of a Pentecostal Holiness minister (father) and missionary (mother) in Charleston, South Carolina. A true Gullah/Geechee “binyah” (native), he was reared in rural Mt. Holly, South Carolina in a familial village established in the late 1850s. The rich Gullah language and culture he absorbed growing up on those sandy Low Country backroads is ever-present in his life as an artist, advocate, and educator.
