Mayor Adams accused “woke” Democrats on Wednesday of driving minority voters out of the party — embracing a talking point typically pushed by Republicans.
“There’s a hemorrhaging of our Latino community, our AAPI communities, that’s leaving the traditional Democratic base, because we’ve allowed the loudest and those who consider themselves to be ‘woke,’” Adams said in an appearance on MSNBC.
“Some of us never went to sleep, and we hear and speak directly to people, and I think the party is now understanding that we have to speak at those issues that are important: Jobs, public safety, educating our children, good health care, just these common kitchen table issues.”
Adams delivered the broadside against some of his fellow Democrats while opining on President Joe Biden’s Tuesday night State of the Union address before Congress.
The moderate mayor made the case that Biden did a good job in his speech of moving away from “woke” rhetoric in favor of focusing on meat-and-potatoes political issues.
But the mayor, who was a registered Republican between 1997 and 2001, did not elaborate on what he meant by “woke” or which specific Democrats he believes are to blame for advancing that message. A mayoral spokesman did not immediately respond to emailed follow-up questions.
“Woke” emerged out of the Black Lives Matter movement in the mid-2010s as a term urging people to be on alert in their everyday lives for police brutality and systemic racism.
However, since then, the term has mostly morphed into a taunt used by conservatives to ridicule liberals who they believe are overly focused on using inclusive and “politically correct” language.
Notably, Republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders also railed against “woke” Democrats in her party’s Tuesday night rebuttal to Biden’s State of the Union.
“The Biden administration seems more interested in woke fantasies than the hard reality Americans face every day,” Sanders said in her nationally televised remarks.
Like Adams, Sanders did not elaborate on what “woke” means to her.
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“The Biden administration seems more interested in woke fantasies than the hard reality Americans face every day,”
It doesn’t matter to the woke Democrat Party about hard reality Americans face every day as long as they appear to be woke promoters.
These Dishonorable socialist woke Democrat Party’s phony anti-racist crusades have little or nothing to do with protecting the civil rights or sensitivities of people of color or Anybody else. But everything to do with the woke Democrats setting themselves up as their saviors. Their practice of patronizing groups cannot yield to the facts that the Democrat Party has a long history of racial discrimination. The woke Democrat Party is not defending the oppressed or the offended but it is about making themselves look wonderful with their latest destructive political racist Con.
The overwhelming of the majority of We the People are NOT racist, we judge by one’s actions and character.
“Judge not by the color of one’s skin but by the contents of their character”
SINCE He’s a WOKE dem, he’s the pot calling the kettle black!
Mayor Adams, you should cheer that on and maybe follow them. The Democratic Party is responsible for the total destruction of the border, the incredible fentanyl crises, and pushing anti-white propaganda, which possibly could result in a second Civil War. They started the first one to keep slavery alive, but they lost the War and hundreds of thousands of young men died. After we in the North lost 650,000 Union soldiers, You wonder if they remember any of that history. Do they forget how long and costly it was, are they trying to start a second one? Defunding them wont work, disbanding the entire Party is what is needed.
OF course they remember it. WHY do you think they are wanting to ERASE history from our schools!