1 definition by Raheem Sonje
When one is in a perpetual place of slumber, regarding systematic and idiosyncratic injustice and oppression in regards to race, i.e. the antithesis of being woke. Especially when a person of color can't or refuses to see it.
Tod: Morgan Freeman told Don Lemon that black folks should pull themselves up from their bootstraps, even when they ain't got no boots.
Marcus: You know Morgan has been in the sunken place.
Marcus: You know Morgan has been in the sunken place.
by Raheem Sonje July 18, 2017