Kaine, Granholm said, is “as decent, honorable, selfless soul as you will ever meet. A man with the heart of a servant, who is ‘woke’.”

.@timkaine is as decent, honorable, selfless soul as you will ever meet. A man with the heart of a servant, who is "woke". @HillaryClinton — Jennifer Granholm (@JenGranholm) July 23, 2016

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“Woke” is not an easy word to define. It grew to prominence as part of the Black Lives Matter movement, and has largely been used to mean a person aware of — and fighting against — systemic racism and bias in society.

According to Bustle , by 2011 the word “woke” “had begun to gain popularity as a way of describing an informed, questioning, self-educating individual, which is essentially how we use it today.”