The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia http://libgen.li/item/index.php?md5=28C51308F215E77FA12EEA0E3A25F329
...But for many individuals, dreams of a Pan-African utopia in Liberia were tempered by complicated relationships with the Africans, whom they dispossessed of land. Liberia soon became a politically unstable mix of newcomers, indigenous peoples, and "recaptured" Africans from westbound slave ships. Ultimately, Clegg argues, in the process of forging the world's second black-ruled republic, the emigrants constructed a settler society marred by many of the same exclusionary, oppressive characteristics common to modern colonial regimes.
broke: read Settlers
woke: read Settlers but replace America with Africa and replace "white" with "black", and replace "black" with "indigenous black"
https://hexbear.net/post/124646/comment/1425240
If your question is still "who is calling them woke?" then fair enough. I think you would find that while their following is small, it is extremely dedicated and their ideas have some sympathy on the left and among the poorest blacks in the country (who are the people we want to be reaching). When your world is defined by the contrast of the white suburb and the black ghetto, the white condo and the black tenement, the white police officer and the incarcerated black, it is easy to fall into primordial ideas defining race as the basic contradiction (white people do this all the time to, just in reverse). Meanwhile the only other option is some pasty white DSA kid who only half understands Marx stumbling through an explanation of his ideas, suddenly the black militia proclaiming a New African Republic seems pretty cool.
As ever, the internet is about inventing a guy and getting mad at that guy.
There's people putting up Black Hammer flyers in the city I work in, in one of the whitest states in the country. A few days ago, a heavily armed black militant group got arrested crossing into Massachusetts. Last year this website was fawning over NBPP members who brought rifles to a protest (until they realized they were the New Black Panther Party). It's not like these groups don't exist among the radical elements of the black community.
Edit: also I'm not mad at them, black nationalism poses an interesting opportunity and unique challenges to the communist movement.
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