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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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Mika Brzezinski

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Aug 27 2008, 8:00 AM ET Comment

Man I'm watching her on Morning Joe. Good lord is she the Alan Colmes of MSNBC? Man they just walk right over her. Joe and Pat just push her aside. Why is she on the show? The irony of course, is that I'm watching them do this just as they're praising Hillary Clinton's run.

UPDATE: Closed the thread. Sorry guys, I'm going to be on and offline. This could get out of hand.


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