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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.

Tim Russert--Will You Reject AND Condemn Don Imus?

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Feb 28 2008, 10:25 AM ET Comment

Haha. Courtesy of TPM. Only blacks are required to denounce the bigots among them. For white public figures, bigotry is apparently the default setting, so it's fine I guess. The funny thing is that where as Farrakhan is simply a friend of a friend of Barack's, Russert and Imus actually are boys.



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