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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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Barack Obama--Chicago Thug

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sep 22 2008, 1:16 PM ET Comment

I'm not very interested in Limbaugh being Limbaugh when he calls Obama a "Chicago thug." Still Adam Serwer's retort made me laugh:

You don't get much realer than Barack Obama, it's true. I hear he bleeds courvoisier. He chews spent slugs like bubblegum. He can roll a blunt with his toes.
Kids today still roll blunts?


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