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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.

More on the eternal, never-ending travails of the blacks

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jul 22 2008, 9:12 AM ET Comment

NPR looks at the end of "white flight." William Frey is on there. Really smart guy. I'm less impressed with the WSJ reporter. There's something condescending about this whole conversation. Obviously there's the conflation of the "black poor" with all black people. But moreover there's just this expectation that black people won't be affected by the exact same market forces as white people, that black people won't want to move to a suburb with good schools and big lawns just like white people.



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