Frankly what I believe happened is that certain sensitive touchy people got emotionally disturbed and pissed off that certain clever cool black people had the temerity to say “awakened” deliberately wrong. And that it caught on. That it seeped into the vernacular the way cool black people have had the knack of doing. Certain people just couldn’t handle it. So, in their consequent anger they’ve gone ahead and fossilized something that would have come and would have gone, like the ladies who once spoke of Michelangelo.

Much to-do (some kind of ajar ado) about nothing but misplaced anger, and the sound and the fury, signifying nothing, that had a dire need to be impatient, to be unkind, to be jealous, to be pompous, to be inflated, to be rude, to seek their own interests, to be quick-tempered, to brood over injury, to rejoice over wrongdoing and to disdain and attempt to alternately co-opt the truth. To broadcast — with performative drama of outrage — this co-opted ‘alternative’ truth, a tale told by an idiot. In other words, the republican platform. You know. like white people do. The ones on Fox. The ones who deign to be awakened in any way.

#Snowflakery