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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.

Michelle Obama's Dickipedia page

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Aug 8 2008, 11:26 AM ET Comment

Again, not wrong because it's politically incorrect. Wrong because it just isn't that funny. Contrary to popular opinion, It really isn't that hard to make fun of black people. I think all the whining from comedians really is about their desire to make lame jokes about black people. Put another way, they want the right to joke black people, while having only a surface level insight into black people. Folks just need to work harder. Sarah Silverman pulls it off all the time.




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