Wokeness is just the next evolution of American culture and values.

A lot of people complain about "woke" but in reality the ideals advanced by wokeness are just a natural evolution of American culture/values.

The abolition of the form of racism manifested on slavery and segregation naturally leads to the fight against systemic racism and anti racism.

The women's suffragette movement that challenged the sexist structures and attitudes in society naturally leads to the fight against the patriarchal systems and attitudes that dominate society even today.

The American ideal of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness necessarily leads to a complete freedom of self-determination of the individual which among many things includes a person's freedom to identify with the sex/gender they most feel they align with regardless of what the past systems with their patriarchal and sexist stereotypes might consider.

Things like these need society to undergo a process of "decolonization" by which the structures (and even heroes) of the past that belonged to and propagated oppressive racist and sexist structures are "dismantled" and structures that better reflect the melting pot style demographic of the USA and that seek to build a more diverse, equitable and inclusive society should be put in their place.

So yes, wokeness is not some radical new idea but just the next evolution of the American ideal.