Meaning

verb be awake, be alert, be there

verb stop sleeping

verb arouse or excite feelings and passions

originShortened from woken or woken up, or derived from dialectal use of woke (past participle of wake). The sense of being aware of social injustice dates to at least the 1930s. The derogatory use has been most commonly used as of the 2020s.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0