Black man here.
When I use "woke", the first race I usually think of are guilty, insufferable, affluent white leftists who endlessly debase themselves by constant apologies for ancient grievances; pronoun games, insipid land acknowledgements; language-fucking, and stupid memes like the ones below.
That is, IF I actually think of race at all, because if I'm going to be brutally honest, when I speak of wokeness, I speak of the mind-virus that is a nasty homunculus of narcissism, oikophobia, debauchery and nihilism, with undertones of self-hatred, and a dollop of outright Marxist gnosticism on top.
I think of people like you; bitter, cynical has-been journalists immersed in critical consciousness who think something will rise from the ashes of the social contracts you're working to burn to the ground as we speak.
Perhaps you say stupid, vitriolic shit like this to overcompensate for the fact of your mixed-race heritage, or because MTG is goofy, low-hanging fruit that's easy to use as a broad brush to paint all who aren't politically orthodox with you, but ma'am, as a classical blue-collar liberal, I'm tired of this.
I'm sick of ALL of this.
Woke, for me and many others, is the EXACT way to identify what you people are, because Marxism is a religio-political cult that calls for people to be "awake" to the prison that is our modern existence....by destroying it.
We are DONE with this shit.
This ends NOW.
So reporters.. for many people "woke" means Black people. Or more likely--a racist slur. So maybe do a better job in interviews when people talk about 'wokeness' mmkay?