Barack Obama is right about giving 'woke' culture a rest. Will progressive Democrats listen?

Formerly defined as simply the opposite of being asleep, "woke" in the era of Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement frequently describes an awareness of important facts and issues, particularly in areas of racial and social justice.

However, as the crowdsourced and up-to-the-minute Urban Dictionary more recently offers, "woke" also can mean "the act of being very pretentious about how much you care about a social