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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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Anti-intellectualism as campaign strategy

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Aug 6 2008, 3:08 PM ET Comment


And you always fear, what you don't understand.
--Carmine Falcone

This is a great clip of Barack. Frankly, as good as his speeches are, I think he's much, much better ad-libbing.


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