Wokeism Is Bigotry

A Response to Angela Rains Light

Angela Rains Light, a fellow citizen in my admittedly privileged community of Camarillo, California, published a strongly opinionated letter to the editor in our local Ventura County Star newspaper, a member of the USA Today family. That media’s published history is not known to be any more unbiased or reliable than the right-wing media she castigates. All issues facing our nation and its peoples are always nuanced, not a black and white diagram of Yin and Yang. Thus I felt she deserved a complete quotation and response.

Her letter:

GOP has gone ‘woke’ crazy

The Republican Party has obviously sent out a memo instructing its elected officials and their reliably deceitful rightwing media outlets to scream, “Woke, woke and more woke!”

What are they suggesting when they spew this word? That those who are “woke” believe in the civil rights of all Americans…