I am down. I am woke.

I am down.

 Down people see America as a place of implicit hypocrisy. They observe the faults of her soul, pointing out every pimple on her oily, adolescent mien. "Slavery," they shout, "Gender equality!"  "Civil Rights!" they trumpet, "Human dignity!" Their skin is dark or at least darkish, and they have witnessed pain as a consequence of this inconvenience. They're comfortable, though, really quite content. Their complaints are launched from the security of a job, a home, a heavy social life. 

I am woke. 

Woke people speak only to other people who are similarly woke. So advanced are they, that listening to others with differing view points is a near impossibility. Woke people judge others based not on their own intrinsic value, but on how valuable people are to themselves. They are most woke after a forth class of merlot, or maybe a third beer, and someone always has some weed. They speak of revolution at parties, nod vigorously as banalities, and have African locs, not dreads. They operate on levels that are inoperable. 

 Down woke people love Malcolm X, and will tell you MLK is overplayed. They adore Michele and Barack, and fuck with old school Kayne. They eat soul food with reduced fat, went to Harvard or something like that, and love cats. They're down and woke so they work hard at corporate jobs unless they're teachers, and then they're really down and woke automatic, no questions asked, signed sealed delivered. And Yes, down woke people love Stevie. And Kendrick. and maybe some Drake. 

Down woke people are cynics and voted for Jill Stein or not at all. When super motivated, they march against Trump, are utterly unsurprised he won, and eat chipotle after rallies,  always with extra guac. They speak other languages or at least they did, pretty fluently, because they took AP Spanish in high school, and basically placed out of the language requirement at University. Sometimes they call "college"  "university."  Because they're down and woke. 

Down woke people are never at fault. Institutional racism always supersedes personal agency, and down woke down people know it. It's why they're down. It's why they're woke. 

I am down.

I am woke.