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

Right Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin at St George’s Chapel, Windsor. Her recent remarks were made to C of E’s General Synod, which voted to create racial injustice action plans. Photograph: Reuters

“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.