Wokeness is anti-white, but started off as affirmative actions. Affirmative action was sold to the public as a way for groups supposedly held back to get a bit caught up. While affirmative action was unpopular, it was less mean spirited and there was some logic for it applying to descendants of slaves. You could disagree, I did and do, but there's a case. Soon enough, as many blacks who wanted to be policemen got jobs. Affirmative action should have run its course, but that's never how these program work.
What then happened was white women were given preferences, especially in police and firefighting. Physical standards were lowered.
In the case of black Americans, their written scores were bumped up (don't call me RAAACIST, that's literally how it worked, you can read the court cases yourself), but they still had to meet the physical requirements.
From there it spiraled. Africans who migrated to the U.S. were given affirmative action. What? Mexicans got affirmative action. Indians arrived and started getting freebies and affirmative action. Why? There's zero case for this in history or logic.
SBA loans for every migrant and "refugee." Low or no interest rate loans. Lowered lending standards. Some ethnic groups don't have to pay business taxes for the first five years of owning a company, so they keep transferring ownership to family members, to avoid ever paying taxes.
It became impossible for white Americans, including those who directly descended from this country's founding, to compete on an even playing field.
There's zero case to give immigrants freebies. Unlike a narrow class of people (descendants of slaves), there's no case to be made for the gimmes. Only the hatred of white Americans justifies the regime WE STILL LIVE UNDER TODAY.
Soon enough affirmative action was explicitly anti-white man, and now we see woke as being a hatred of all white people, but with a genocidal bent. It's not enough to make it impossible for Americans to own gas stations and hotels in their own towns.
The woke want to genocide white Americans, like the Bolsheviks did to the Russians and then the kulaks in Ukraine. (Holodomor.)
This is why it's a mistake to think "woke" went away. Woke has been around for several decades. It must all be uprooted.
No affirmative action. No SBA loans for minorities.
Color and race and religion blind must become the rule.
No DEI for any group, no more SBA minority loans. Nothing. There's still a lot of work to be done on this, and it's naive to believe there aren't going to be hidden set-asides.