Wokeness

Floor Speech

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Mr. BABIN. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for having this Special Order on such a crucial time in our history.

You don't have to look hard to see the devastation left behind from the wokeism movement currently plaguing our beloved country. Our schools and our universities, our esteemed and feared military, our government on every level, and our history itself are being contaminated by those pushing socialism and division under the guise of being morally woke.

Webster's dictionary defines the word ``woke'' as being ``aware of and actively attentive to imparted facts and issues, especially issues of racial and social justice.''

Well, I can tell you with absolute certainty that I am woke to the following:

First, I am woke to the fact that innocent men, women, and children across the country are being hurt and killed because of the left's call to defund the police around this Nation.

I am woke to the fact that Democrats are more than willing to spend your hard-earned tax dollars on housing and free handouts for illegal aliens, but cannot be bothered to care for our homeless and our veterans.

I am woke to the fact that the Critical Race Theory is racist in itself.

And, lastly, I am woke to the fact that painting America as a racist nation is wrong on every level and a slap in the face to those of every color, every ethnicity, and creed who courageously paid the ultimate sacrifice so Old Glory could wave boldly and freely for years to come. Now I am hearing calls from the far left and those who are woke to replace our beloved Old Glory.

Where has common sense gone?

If the left truly wants to discuss social justice, I encourage them to talk to the countless minority business owners who watch their life's work be looted and burned in front of their very eyes last year because of woke ideologies.

Go talk to the engineer who was fired and can't pay his bills now because President Biden has foolishly blocked the Keystone pipeline. Go talk to the migrant woman who was assaulted and raped during her trek to the southern border of the United States because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris told her to come here and invited her here.

I could go on, but here is the bottom line: If we don't stand firmly against this movement, America, whose mighty wings have fought to defeat evil tyrants, communism, and Nazism in order to lift freedom- loving people out of the hands of oppressors all over this world, could soon be a socialist dictatorship herself and completely unrecognizable to all who love her and fought for her and died for her. And a world without a free America is a dark world indeed.

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