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- Black Lives Matter activists used the ‘Stay woke’ phrase to ask people to keep watch for police brutality and unjust police tactics
- Woke and the state of being woke (wokeness) are also seen as a leftist political ideology
- Wokeness encompasses the need to search for more knowledge, understanding and truth in order to challenge injustice
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