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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.

And another thing...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jul 25 2008, 7:38 PM ET Comment

...All you folks who can't get through the day because your seized and utterly paralyzed by white guilt, please deposit a check in PayPal account. According to Steele there are millions of you out there, and your guilt is forcing you to excuse my cultural pathologies. I see only one way out--make a deposit, and you can feel unburdened.



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