The Woke Chokehold

We can ban police chokeholds in all 50 states—but the pervasive chokehold in America today is the “woke chokehold.” A majority of Americans feel frozen by fear—and are metaphorically choking—overwhelmed by a sense of powerlessness. 62 percent of Americans are afraid to speak their minds, according to a new CATO poll.

America’s largest police departments—Los Angeles in 1982, New York in 1993, Chicago in 2012, and Minneapolis in 2020— have banned the use of chokeholds by officers. Crime, however, is soaring in these cities. For example, even as the radical Minneapolis City Council works to eliminate police, robberies are up 37percent.

A chokehold is used to generate submission. We must acknowledge that while the “woke” crowd bars police from utilizing the chokehold as a tactical maneuver, they do everything possible to jolt you and me with crushing fear, resulting in our silence and capitulation.

Whips, Not Words = Woke

What does “woke” mean? Woke is technically the past participle for the word “wake.” In American slang, however, woke means an “awareness” of significant issues related to social justice and race.

“Whips, not words, equals woke” is a more accurate definition. Because—even as you read this article—individual citizens, priests, pastors, small businesses, large businesses and non-profits are being bludgeoned into submission by the woke patrol.

Whips can be literal—like arson and graffiti on houses of worship. Or political—like California Gov. Newsom’s ban on public worship, even while social distancing. Very often, the “whips” employed by America’s woke patrol are censorship by social media and search engines.

“So long as men can speak and write freely, so long as there is no censorship, they still have a chance to reform their society or to put it on a better road,” author/philosopher Ayn Rand once responded when asked whether it was time for authors, artists and intellectuals to withdraw their talents from society.

Sometimes it feels like we’re there—at a place of total censorship. We’re not. Yet.

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