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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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Lapdogs, all of you

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Oct 19 2008, 1:03 PM ET Comment

Numerous fools have written to question my knowledge of snakes. Fools. Normally, I have no problem with correction but you guys clearly missed out on one of the great markers of a great era--80s professional wrestling, The cobra clutch is a wrestling move. See below. And save your know-it-all-ness for my grammar. Like I said before. Fools. How dare you question the repertoire?




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