“Stay woke”
In possibly the earliest audio recording of the phrase, Ledbetter urged Black listeners to “stay woke” in the spoken afterword to a 1938 recording of his song “Scottsboro Boys”. The song tells the story of nine Black teenagers and young men falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931. Ledbetter warns his listeners, “So I advise everybody, be a little careful when they go along through there—best stay woke, keep their eyes open.”
Probably for tracking purposes. Choosing this as a background image doesn’t feel organic.
This is pure speculation though.