I am not sure that is an accurate description, and it is one that
wikipedia disagrees with:
The phrase "stay woke" had emerged in the United States by the 1930s.
Black American folk singer-songwriter Huddie Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly, uses the phrase near the end of the recording of his 1938 song "Scottsboro Boys"
J. Saunders Redding recorded a comment from an African American United Mine Workers official in 1940, stating: "Let me tell you buddy. Waking up is a damn sight harder than going to sleep, but we'll stay woke up longer."
Woke had gained more political connotations by 1971 when the play Garvey Lives! by Barry Beckham included the line: "I been sleeping all my life. And now that Mr. Garvey done woke me up, I'm gon' stay woke. And I'm gon help him wake up other black folk."
Following the shooting of Michael Brown in 2014, The phrase stay woke was used by activists of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement to urge awareness of police abuses.[28][10] BET's documentary "Stay Woke," which covered the movement, aired in May 2016.
The phrase Stay Woke became an Internet meme, with searches for "woke" on Google surging in 2015.
In November 2016, the singer Childish Gambino released the song "Redbone", which used the term "stay woke" in reference to infidelity.
The more negative connotations and right wing take up is much more recent:
[In 2020] Writer and activist Chloé Valdary has stated that the concept of being woke is a "double-edged sword" that can "alert people to systemic injustice" while also being "an aggressive, performative take on progressive politics that only makes things worse."
By at least early 2020, figures on the political right were criticising what they termed "woke culture," with right-leaning media sources increasingly using the term "woke" as a pejorative.