Jamil Jivani: No, 'woke' is not a racial slur

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Jamil Jivani: No, 'woke' is not a racial slur
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To accept the argument that woke is a racial slur is to assume that black people are synonymous with certain political ideas

. A preposterous assumption, to be sure. The most woke institutions today are not primarily owned, controlled or funded by black people.

Consider the example of public schools, which are routinely featured in the news for pushing woke politics onto students and punishing those who disagree with the trendy activist ideologies of the day. In Ontario, school boards have gone so woke that one of the province’s few black school board trustees, Mike Ramsay, has been previously censured by the Waterloo Region District School Board for questioning the board’s race politics.

But Ontario school boards are not woke because of black people. Let’s be clear. Wokeness in Ontario schools can be traced back to the province’s Ministry of Education.Article content

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