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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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That experience meme isn't the only problem...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sep 2 2008, 1:00 PM ET Comment

Let me get this straight--McCain lectures Obama on putting country first. GOP operatives run commercials attempting to tie Obama to Bill Ayres. But McCain believes that the Vice-Presidency should got to someone who has ties to a group that is literally unpatriotic:

"I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions."
Wow. Hilzoy sums it up better than I can, but damn these cats have a lot of gall.


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