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In the June 30 Washington Post, Kathleen Parker called President Obama our first "female President". Well, as my sistas say, "oh no she didn't".

Seriously, Parker thought she was being clever by using an approach similar to the one Toni Morrison took when she called Bill Clinton "the first black President". Morrison made sense, Parker is showing just how deep racism in this country cuts. Now I don't mean racism of the "I hate black people" variety, but racism in the sense that white people are still ignorant to the depth of the Black experience.

Parker compares Obama's measured, passive approach to the feminine way of doing things. She obviously has no clue as to how a black man can rise through the ranks the way Obama did. For we black man to rise to the highest levels we can't shoot from the lip. We have to be calculating, or as the great James Brown put it so succinctly, "every trip, you gotta be hipper than hip".

Obama represents a style of black male leadership that lies in stark contrast to the white male leadership this country has become so accustomed to. It's a leadership that doesn't allow for mistakes that come from silly wild-ass guesses or overly emotional decisions. It's a leadership that knows that everyday you're behind the proverbial cross hairs and people are shooting to kill. A black man in a position of high authority simply doesn't have the luxuries that a white man does, yet rather than deal with that reality and speak to the strategies black male leaders like Kenneth Chenault or Barack Obama use to rise to the top, Parker goes out of her way to avoid talking about race and instead comes close to calling President Obama a woman, and tries to make it sound complimentary.

Years ago, a black man that looked like Obama could never have become President and was regularly called "boy" by white men. Today, a black man is the President, yet has to suffer being called "girl" by some white lady simply because he doesn't act like a jackass white man? That's some BS right there.