“I’m worried, because if [Obama] wins, black people are going to have to come up with another excuse. You can’t blame the man when you are the man.” - Wanda Sykes, 2008
Code Pink got to sit up front at the inaguration:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2167970/posts?page=1617#1617
What the silly poet is trying to say is that we are all part of our ancestors, and have responsibility for our ancestry. She is saying that no cultural background is better than another and that it is time for the white man to accept that.
This is just a milder version of the Lowry, complaint.
Excuses will still continue. I think of the mayor of Detroit, Mayor of DC (Berry sp?).