ALICE WALKER: Obama is our Mandela.

Well, yeah, except for the years of imprisonment, and the whole Apartheid thing. Jeez, people are really losing it. Plus, when did Alice Walker become white? “He is the change America has been trying desperately and for centuries to hide, ignore, kill. The change it must have if we are to convince the rest of the world that we care about people other than our (white) selves.” Our?