Even though Barack Obama has won and American racism is over forever, the Today show still doesn't know how to talk about black people. To wit: today's "does Obama have enough street cred?" segment.

Basically they drew the vague comparison between Obama and gangsta rapper 50 Cent. The former used his Harvard degree and silver-tongued charms to win over scared white people, while the latter gave scared white people what they wanted by scaring them even more. We know Fiddy is cool, because look at those album sales, but is Obama—the leader of the free world—hip and street enough to win over impressionable, danger-seeking youngs?

To answer their question they interviewed a now-gay Steve Urkel and his friends. They said that it was pretty "gangsta" when Barry appointed Hillary to Secretary of State. Right. So I guess that settles it.

And then Gwen Ifill showed up to the studio and chuckled in embarrassment. Sigh.