For years now, there’s been this saying that emerged from the right and it goes like this: go woke, go broke.
What the talking point lacked in creative rhyming, it made up for in racism. The theory is that the more a sports league goes “woke,” the more it will suffer in popularity, namely, television ratings. In general though, woke, or the way they think of the word, has come to mostly mean anti-Black.