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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.

More GG right-wingers

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Oct 14 2008, 11:14 AM ET Comment

Heh, Ann Althouse checks out Jack Cashill's theory that Ayers wrote Obama's bio, and comes up divided:

Mere confirmation bias? Or is Cashill onto something?
In fairness, there's been some pushback over at The Corner about this latest nuttery. Still, I'm going to say this one last time--actually I'm going to say it until they put me under: I don't ever want to hear anyone complaining about black people and their conspiracy theories. The cat on the corner--or even the Reverend--yelling about the government inventing AIDS is off his rocker. But my God, all these people do is sit around think. And this is what they come up with--Bill Ayers wrote Barack's memoir. Wow.


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