On Becoming “Woke”

Archival image from Brian Ragsdale, during his freelance illustration days, circa 1983

There is a phenomena, a familiar one when a person who belongs to a typical oppressor group becomes “woke” to the experience of the oppressed. Accounts of these woke experience are not new, although the language we use to capture it are.

Consider this:
When a person wakes from a dream, foggy state, or form of denial, we must first ascertain if they experienced the awakening process as a wonderful dream or a nightmare, or a…