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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 blacks and the Jews

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jun 9 2008, 8:33 AM ET Comment

Following this, I fully expect to see the British intelligentsia convening summits, penning editorials, and otherwise making hay over the shocking rise in Jewish racism. I mean because, clearly, some drug-addicted soul crooner, high and at her worst moment, speaks for all Jews everywhere, around the world, for all time. OK, not all Jews. But most. Gotta be most.

UPDATE: As per Gussie's suggestion, I now demand Joe Lieberman denounce and reject Amy Winehouse--and Disraeli while he's at it. Didn't Disraeli give us the scramble for Africa? Who cares. I heard that he did. That's all that matters



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