The word "woke" has a long history in Black culture, and its origins are in African American Vernacular English (AAVE). It's used to describe being politically aware and conscious. 

Early uses

• In 1923, Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey wrote "Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa!" in a collection of philosophical ideas. 
• In 1938, blues musician Huddie Ledbetter, also known as Lead Belly, sang "Stay woke" in the outro of his song "Scottsboro Boys". The song is about nine Black teenagers who were falsely accused of raping two white women in 1931. 
• In 2008, Erykah Badu's song "Master Teacher" popularized the phrase "stay woke" again. 

Other uses 

• The Oxford English Dictionary credits a 1962 New York Times article by William Melvin Kelley as the first citation of the word "woke".
• Childish Gambino's 2016 song "Redbone" also includes the phrase "stay woke".

Co-optation: Some Republicans have co-opted the term "woke" as a pejorative term. <<< BLEACH DEMONS 101 AT IT AGAIN🔻EVEN IN THE UK! WTF DO THEY THINK THIS IS. BIGGEST PUSSYOLES TO NEVER DO IT. 

WHITENESS IS BUN 187🔥

"The rise of a messiah" refers to the emergence of a prophesied leader, often considered divinely chosen, who is believed to bring salvation or significant change to a community or the world, typically associated with religious traditions like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam where the Messiah is a central figure expected to usher in a period of peace and prosperity; essentially, it describes the story of a charismatic leader gaining widespread support and recognition as the awaited savior. 

Key points about the "rise of a messiah":

• Prophetic fulfillment: In many religious texts, the coming of a Messiah is foretold through prophecies that detail their characteristics and actions, which followers interpret as being fulfilled by the chosen leader. 
• Charismatic leadership: The Messiah is often depicted as having exceptional qualities like wisdom, compassion, and the ability to inspire and unite people. 
• Social and political impact: The rise of a Messiah can lead to significant social and political change, as people rally behind their belief in the leader's mission to improve the world. 
• Different interpretations: Depending on the religion, the role and nature of the Messiah can vary, with some believing in a literal figure who will physically appear, while others may interpret it more metaphorically. 

Example in Christianity:

• Jesus as the Messiah: In Christianity, Jesus is considered the Messiah prophesied in the Old Testament, believed to be the Son of God who came to redeem humanity through his sacrifice. 

Turtle Island is a name for North America or Earth used by some Indigenous peoples and activists. It can also refer to a book, an island in Lake Erie, and an island in Newcastle Bay. 

Turtle Island as a name for North America

• Based on a creation myth that says North and Central America were formed on a turtle's back 
• Used by many Native American tribes 

Turtle Island as a book 

• A book of poems and essays by Gary Snyder that won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1975
• The book expresses Snyder's vision for humans to live in harmony with the earth

Turtle Island as an island in Lake Erie 

• A 1.5-acre island in Lake Erie that is divided between Michigan and Ohio
• The island is home to abandoned structures and the ruins of Turtle Island Light

Turtle Island as a book about the history of Native peoples 

• Turtle Island: The Story of North America's First People is a book that goes back to the Ice Age to give young readers a glimpse of what life was like before European contact.

"We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and the winding streams with tangled growth as “wild.” Only to the White man was nature a “wilderness” and only to him was the land infested by “wild” animals and “savage” people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the hairy man from the east came and with brutal frenzy heaped injustices upon us and the families we loved was it “wild” for us."
– Luther Standing Bear, Land of the Spotted Eagle

Many spiritual traditions, including Buddhism, Sufism (the mystical branch of Islam), Taoism, Gnosticism, as well as many indigenous cultures, have long understood the mind-based nature of creation. 

These worldviews have at their core a recognition of the power of thought forms to determine the course of physical events. [+]

BY PAUL LEVY, AUTHOR OF WETIKO: HEALING THE MIND-VIRUS THAT PLAGUES OUR WORLD

A contagious psycho-spiritual disease of the soul is currently being acted out en masse on the world stage via an insidious collective psychosis of titanic proportions. This mind-virus—which Native Americans have called “wetiko”—covertly operates through the unconscious blind spots in the human psyche, rendering people oblivious to their own madness and compelling them to act against their own best interests. Wetiko is a psychosis in the true sense of the word, “a sickness of the spirit.” Wetiko covertly influences our perceptions so as to act itself out through us while simultaneously hiding itself from being seen.

Wetiko bewitches our consciousness so that we become blind to the underlying, assumed viewpoint through which we perceive, conjure up, and give meaning to our experience of both the world and ourselves. This psychic virus can be thought of as the “bug” in “the system” that informs and animates the madness that is playing out in our lives, both individually and collectively, on the world stage.

Before being able to treat this sickness that has infected us all, we have to snap out of our denial, see the disease, acknowledge it, name it, and try to understand how it operates so as to ascertain how to deal with it—this is what my book Wetiko is all about.

The Normalization of Wetiko

A few years ago I ran into a friend whom I hadn’t seen for a while. He asked me what I had been up to. I answered that I was writing about the collective psychosis that our species had fallen into. His response was telling. He asked me what made me think there was a collective psychosis going on. His question left me speechless; I literally didn’t know how to respond. What made him think there wasn’t a collective psychosis going on, I wondered. Could he give me one piece of evidence? Our collective madness had become so normalized that most people—my friend was extremely bright, by the way—didn’t even notice.

Many of us have become conditioned to thinking that if we were in a middle of a collective psychosis it would mean that people would be doing all sorts of “crazy” things such as running around naked and screaming, for instance. This ingrained idea, however, gets in the way of recognizing the very real collective insanity in which all of us are—both passively and actively—participating. If we want to envision what a collective psychosis could actually look like, it might be a real eye-opener to realize it would look exactly like what is happening right now in our world. [+]

30 Jan 2012 — A psycho-spiritual disease of the soul that has been wreaking havoc throughout human history that Native Americans call wetiko.

The wetiko pathogen originally manifests as a disturbance in the field of the collective unconscious of humanity itself, creating the psychic ley lines upon which world events are erected and energized. The origin of this virulent disease is to be discovered within the psyche (please see my article It’s All in the Psyche). 

Because of the psychic nature of wetiko, it serves us to understand the psychological underpinnings of the virus, which is to say, how it affects our day to day relationships and lives. We begin to ‘see’ the bug when we are able to get in focus and recognize ‘its’ psychological signature in both ourselves and others. The fact that the source of the wetiko germ is within the psyche means that the cure for this disease lies hidden within the psyche as well.

Wetiko psychosis is at the very root of humanity’s inhumanity to itself in all its various forms. As a species, we need to step into and participate with our own spiritual and psychological evolution, which means that we must focus our attention on and contemplate this ‘topic of topics’ before this virulent madness destroys us. Up until this point in our history we have been too easily distracted by the ruses of the wetiko bug itself. The disease itself is now demanding that we pay attention to it, or it will kill us. [+]