
Speaking at the Obama Foundation Summit on Tuesday, former President Obama told his mostly young audience to get over “wokeness.” “If I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right or used the wrong verb,” he said, “then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself, because, man, you see how woke I was ... That’s not activism. That’s not bringing about change. If all you’re doing is casting stones, you’re probably not going to get that far.”