Opinion: It's Time To Put 'Woke' To Sleep

As each year comes to a close, many of us look forward to what we'll take on in the coming 12 months: new exercise routines, new plans to save, a better diet. But some of the most effective resolutions can be made by pledging to leave certain things behind, banishing bad habits to the year one is about to exit: swearing off alcohol, cigarettes or that awful ex. In that spirit, I'd like to ask all of us to promise ourselves to leave one word behind in 2018, promise to never utter it again in the new year, promise to perhaps forget we ever said I'm talking about the word "woke." Now several years into its 2010s revival, the word is done. It is dead. It is over. Don't just take my word for it. MTV told people to stop using it as far back as 2016. SNL gave it a in 2017.