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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.

Max Cleland on the Bradley Effect

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Oct 31 2008, 2:10 PM ET Comment

This is the sort of thing that makes me wonder if I'm delusional. I have to admit, who knows more about white people in the South, me or Max Cleland? I know there are GOP pundits who'd disagree, but frankly very few of them are to be trusted on race. That may sound harsh, but I can think on one hand the GOP folks who I've seen think about this with some degree of honesty and seriousness. Back to the point, you also wonder how much age is playing into this. Again, this is why I can't have this debate. I could go back and forth on this all day. Better to focus on what we can control than on whether we're going to have to play in the rain.

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