BF> The original definition is from the black movement a century ago, when
 BF> agitators wanted the oppressed black people to wake up (and they *woke*
 BF> in large numbers. It went like this:

It's funny you should being this up now. 
You are aware that there are folks alive today trying to collect reparations (money) for something that they did not experience. 
This repressive definition that you have supplied does not remotely fit today.  

 BF>    1. being aware of social injustice and acting and doing something
 BF> about it.
 BF>    2. standing up and recognizing, articulating and explaining the
 BF> traumas happening to them.
Does this include burning down cities or the chaos seen when department stores are looted. Many department stores and even the biggest retailers like Wal*Mart are closing locations due to this behavior. 

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