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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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"An inadequate black male..."

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

May 31 2008, 11:23 PM ET Comment

No seriously, tell us what you really think about us. This is what Ferraro-ism breeds. One good thing about all of this. I didn't see a single person in all of the footage of the protest who looked a day younger than, uhm, thirty. This is like the last stand for the bitter bigots. Jed says he smells Roger Stone.

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