Being Conscious is Not a Competition

We’re supposed to know better for the sake of doing better.

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You can call it Civil Rights. You can call it Social Justice. You can call it the freshly minted and oft-maligned, “Woke.” However you dress it up, the basic premise of these words is that they represent awareness. Awareness of injustice, of harm caused, by being treated unfairly.