The butt-showing male pants came out of prison, as did the angry-at-women-and-the-world, rap. The same is true for wokeism.
I personally have never been a prison inmate, I only spent a few hours in jail after a political demonstration and visited at a recidivist prison near Tokyo. I had many acquaintances in the Prisoners Union.
It is pretty clear that many popular values come out of the black experience in American prisons including wokeism.
- Wokies believe in systemic racism. They only mean anti-black racism. In a society where blacks are 12% of the population they are more than 50% of the male prison population. Prisoners, just looking around their daily life come to the systemic racism conclusion.
- White supremacy has the same origins. There are plenty of black prison guards but the system is usually run by whites. So is the judicial system.
- Wokies are angry at economic differences. Hatred of economic success, is bred in prison where communalism is the way of life. In prison nearly everything from food, to clothing, to bedding to TV and showers are nearly all the same. Every little difference is a source of friction. As the seminal work, Animal Farm, makes clear: “some are more equal than others.” Hatred of the rich is normal for prisoners and ex-prisoners.
- Wokies are hostile to merit. In prison only power and gangs have meaning. Merit is meaningless and irrelevant.
- Wokies are miserable people and deeply believe in the human-caused global warming eschatology. Prison is an unhappy life for many people who are generally angry at the world that has incarcerated them. This attitude spills out of prison to wokies.
- Prison generates a strong belief that the police are openly hostile to blacks.
Wokeism has escaped from prison, brought to the world by the black male underclass via the modern Left.