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Woke 2.0 Is Crazy

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s upgrade to the operating system begs the question: What was so crazy about “Woke 1”?

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Michael Harriot
Sep 02, 2026
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Walter 1.0 was crazy

Four score and seven years before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced the official end to the fleeting fad of giving a fuck about Black people, “the musical genius known as Walter Boyd” shared a piece of advice that would go down in the annals of Black-American history:

Avoid white people. All of them. They are no…

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