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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.

Michael Goldfarb: Closeted Nerd

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Aug 20 2008, 11:00 AM ET Comment

And not to be riding the coat-tails of TAPPED this morning, but Adam is dead on when he says of Goldfarb that, "for all his criticisms of the "Dailykos" crowd, if "Dungeons and Dragons" becomes a part of our political lexicon, we'll know who to thank." Part of this is this idea to just make Obama whatever seems foreign. But the continued slams on D&D are too specific and takes us back to Ta-Nehisi's rule of Ghetto-Snobbery--we often are what we hate. Goldfarb remark smacks of a geek trying to get down by slamming other geeks.


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