Every Black person in America needs to give himself time to think this through: Why do you want to stay with the Whites? "Woke" defines itself as the Black necessity to stay alert to White efforts to re-enslave or exterminate them. This defensive and paranoid stance has no substance, except to confirm the Blacks' dependence on White leadership, in the face of taking responsibility for themselves.

You are guided (thwarted) by Existential Angst--by your "retreat from freedom and responsibility" (Wikipedia)--not by a quest for freedom. Freedom, you could have in your own country, but you couldn't fall back on Slavery or Discrimination as a crutch. You would be on your own with no one to turn to for help, and no one to protect you from predatory leaders.

Your own leaders have let the White elites co-opt them and lure them away from creating a separate nation, governed by the Blacks alone. You would have to lure your leaders away from the White institutions where they work--or else pry them away with a crowbar. They would rather go into hiding than join a Black nation. It suggests they have little faith in their own people. With the White elites, on the other hand, they have it made--real prestige!

The longshoreman-philosopher Eric Hoffer writes in his book True Believer about the reality of freedom:

Axiom 26: Freedom aggravates at least as much as it alleviates frustration. Freedom of choice places the whole blame of failure on the shoulders of the individual.
Axiom 28: They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society. . . . They want to eliminate free competition and the ruthless testing to which the individual is continually subjected in a free society.

Axiom 29: Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

Terms like "Freeing the Slaves" contain a sort of unquestionable moral aura, like "the betterment of Mankind" or "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." But the freed-slave ideal does not carry much weight in the more exacting human-environment of a free-society, if the former-slaves cannot advance out of the second-class mindset  that Slavery imposes on them--that defines them--and take their place in a competitive environment, the benefit of freedom from Slavery is lost. Slavery instead becomes the most important reference point for Blacks--in fact, the thing that holds them back.
Nothing expresses the cognitive dissonance of Black culture like the rap group Public Enemy. Public Enemy burst upon the music-scene in 1985 with confrontational songs, and gave concerts to mostly White audiences, complete with bodyguards clad in military fatigues. Songs like "Fight the Power" and "Shut 'Em Down!" Despite the hostile lyrics and threatening stage gestures, Public Enemy leaves no doubt that they intend to stick with the Whites.

So, we Whites have to tolerate the hostility and browbeating? Why put us through all this? The song "By the Time I get to Phoenix", which contains actual threats of violence against the Governor of Arizona, and also contains the lyrics "Pushin' and shakin' the structure/ Bringin' down Babylon". The song further states "We picked a piece of land we deservin' now/ Reparation, a piece of the nation". Presumably he means a piece of the United States. Why not "a piece of the nation" as a separate country?

Public Enemy reiterates cognitive-dissonance in the song "Fight the Power!": "My beloved, let's get down to business/ Mental self-defensive fitness". If Blacks had their own country, they wouldn't need to act defensive toward anyone. "Got to give us what we want!" the lead-singer Chuck-D rants.

To sum it up, Black dependence on the Whites worries me. It signifies a loss of faith in themselves, and the Whites are already doing way more for the Blacks than we should be. Blacks may complain about the dependence but react mostly with passive-aggressive posturing. Can the Blacks govern themselves? Honestly, probably not. That should worry them a lot more than staying woke.