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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.

The Great Jim Cornette On Obama And Health Care

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Dec 23 2009, 8:06 PM ET Comment

I pretty much take it for granted that most of the cats I love in wrestling are conservatives. Anyway, here's Jim Cornette speaking his piece on why he supports Obama and health care reform. For an old school fan, this is some amazing audio. It's Jim Cornette, same dude that repped the Midnight Express, repping Obama. He needs to be on talk radio. He always talked better than Stan Lane or Bobby Eaton. I don't even remember Beautiful Bobby talking, or Dennis Condry.

After the jump check Cornette repping the Beautiful Bobby and Stane Lane. That Ethiopian and fried chicken line is pretty amazing. Don't know if you can do that today. But he was playing the heel. On the real though, give Cornette a radio show. I loved him back in the day. He was iller than Bobby "The Brain" Heenan and Classy Freddie Blassie.





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