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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.

Sarah Palin

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Sep 1 2008, 5:34 PM ET Comment

You guys probably have deduced that I have no interest in talking about this pregnancy issue. If you want a comment from me, here it is. Following the lead of Thoreau, I will say that by the time I was a senior in high school, in every class there was a girl with child, or who had had a child. In those environs you quickly discover that teen-pregnancy is no joke. Later I discovered that pregnancy, period, is no joke. I don't know what else to say short of wishing the whole Palin fam the best.

UPDATE: See hyperlink for the Thoreau reference

UPDATE#2: Barack's response



UPDATE #3: OK, think we've all vented, no?


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