<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-3c50c083-d2bf-4226-17f6-786f12a519e5" class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><font size="3" class="">(After June Jordan’s – “A Poem for South African Women”)</font></span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">“We are the ones we been waiting for” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Just listen to yourselves and we will wait no more </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">No need for another Malcolm or Martin </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">When you stand ready at the door of greatness </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Seeds sewn by Sojourner have now sprouted in her likeness as true </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">New answers to old questions now lie in the hands of youth </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Man or woman in the mirror now serves as your proof </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#222222" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">that we are the ones we’ve been waiting for </span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Challenge is to realize your worth </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">But not before we understand our birthright to the throne </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Our fate is our own </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We are the clones of pharaohs and queens </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We do not stand alone </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We are the people </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">To end WAR </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We Are Responsible </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">To conclude the long WAIT </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#222222" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We Acknowledge It’s Time - Now </span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#222222" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Yes we are the ones we’ve been waiting for you </span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">A community of self </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Individuality the wealth that makes the collective unique </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">New reality that we hold the answers we seek </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We need not lean on the crunch </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Our government too much overrated </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Our concerns too often debated and debated and debated and debated </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Yes we are the one we’ve been waiting for </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Just listen to yourself and we will wait no more </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">No need for another Malcolm or Martin </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">when you stand ready at the door of greatness </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Seeds sewn by Sojourner have now sprouted in her likeness as truth </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">New answers to old questions now lie in the hands of youth </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Man or woman in the mirror now serves as your proof </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">that we are the ones we've been waiting for</span></p><br class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> – Nathan M. Richardson</span></p><br class=""></span></body></html>