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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.
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Bill will be Bill

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Jan 27 2008, 9:56 AM ET Comment

My old buddy Jake Tapper on Clinton's coded race-based appeal. I can't, for the life of me, understand how any self-respecting black person can support Hillary after this sort of crap. I don't think people have any sort of special "racial responsibility" to back Obama. I thought about Edwards, and Joe Biden (when he was still in the race) myself. Shocked about Biden? To me, calculated bigotry is way worse than a slip of the tongue.



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