What The N-Word, DEI, Woke-ness, and Cancel Culture ALL Have in Common
March 6, 2023 There's an itch that I've been trying to scratch for quite some time now. I was born in 1981 and grew up in Jersey City, NJ. I have lived through the HIV-AIDS epidemic, the terrorism of the "War on Drugs", mass incarceration, a few recessions, re-districting and redlining, gun violence, mass shootings, police-involved murders, COVID-19, a riot at our nation's capital - and YET I fear that there's a social condition that's worse - Cancel Culture and Woke-ness. On first blush, this sounds like a false equivocation, but hang in there...I never disappoint. The term "cancel culture" was introduced into the American lexicon a few years ago to describe the mechanism by which an individual or organization can be disenfranchised as a result of making an offensive remark, statement, work of art, or commercial product. Individuals and organizations that have been "canceled" have been terminated from employment or contracts, soc