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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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By popular demand: Chablis-sipper Chris Rock talks down to Pabst-drinking whites

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sep 23 2008, 12:17 PM ET Comment

Best riff: Sexism isn't the reason she lost. She lost to a black guy nobody heard of. She didn't lose to "The Power." Oooh The Power got her. LOL.

UPDATE: More context here for Chris Rock's takedown of Clinton. Apparently Chris Rock did this immediately after Bill Clinton offered only tepid support for Obama--on the same show. Ballsy, to say the least. Gonna try and find full video of both. If anyone gets please link in comments and I'll post.




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