‘Woke’ should not be used as a negative, warns C of E’s first black female bishop

Rose Hudson-Wilkin rebukes misuse of term by government ministers and others ‘threatened’ by social justice movement

“Woke” should not be used as a negative term, the Church of England’s first black female bishop has said, in a stinging rebuke against government ministers and others “who are threatened” by the social justice movement.

Such people want others to think it was a “sin created by the left”, the Right Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the bishop of Dover, told the C of E’s ruling assembly, the General Synod.