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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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Black People Over 65 Are No Longer Allowed To Speak

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

May 1 2008, 9:41 PM ET Comment

...except James Clyburn and Joe Lowery. OK, so I'm joking but seriously, from Jesse claiming Obama is acting like he's white to Andy Young asserting that Bill Clinton is blacker than Obama to the Wright Rev, what is with the civil right crowd and the politics of spectacle? Now Barbara Reynolds, whom we have to thank for all of this, is asking for an apology. Ugh. And they say hip-hop made us crazy. What's their excuse?



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