YOU ARE THE ONES YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR

When then Senator Barack Obama delivered his February 19, 2008 "Super Tuesday" speech in Chicago, he said, "We are the ones we've been waiting for."

Most people don't attribute these words to the late great Black feminist poet June Jordan. Many don't realize that Sweet Honey in the Rock also turned those words into a song. Alice Walker has written, "Hearing this song, I have witnessed thousands of people rise to their feet in joyful recognition and affirmation." I am one of those people who feels