I referred to myself as woken a long time before the current use of "woke". In my younger years, I was ignorant of a lot of things and believed in a lot of wrong things. Much of this was due to how I was raised. Once I "woke" to the incorrectness of a lot of my perspectives, I endeavored to become more informed. Consequences of becoming more informed (woke) was that I became more progressive and a better person. So I embrace "wokeness".