I prefer the term “awake”. It simpy implies that rational people can agree that everything changes in each generation. Woke has now been bastardized by the far right fascist/Christian nationalist movement. Awake simply implies there are truths on planet earth and power,money and politics has been soaked in blood and oppression of certain groups to the advantage of others. It also implies that real objective truth is simply speaking the truth in this respect. Criticism of our present system is not anti-democratic it is entirely democratic and that’s why the hatters love to ramp up emotions and grievance. You can pick the pockets of any white man as long as you give them the black/brown man as an enemy of their social standing to lay all the problems of society at their feet…,, Loosely paraphrased and written of Lyndon Johnson’s famous quote.