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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.

From the Aspen Ideas Festival panel on race

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jul 4 2008, 12:30 PM ET Comment

Boy, the kid has some awful posture. I need some class, and fast. Anyway, here is a snippet from Tuesday's panel on race. I like this clip because too much of the panel was spent on the traditional black/white divide. Here Charles Kamasaki speaks on Latino issues. Rich Ford also speaks on moving away from a blame-based paradigm--i.e. either the white man has his foot on my neck, or my culture is completely pathological.



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