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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.

There are a couple choice hip-hop lines I could use here

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Oct 24 2008, 1:43 PM ET Comment

But I won't. This woman seems to be just plain disturbed. Maybe some dude did carve a B in her face. If so, that's horrific, and I hope they catch him. If she's running the Charles Stuart joint, I hope she gets some help.

UPDATE: It's a hoax. Damn. I'm thinking of that dude at the end of that short where the Muslims for McCain challenge the guy claiming Barack is socialist Muslim--Are you trying to make us lose? If I were Drudge, I'd spin things like this--it was stunt pulled by a closet Obama supporter. Indeed all of these fools showing up at the rallies are Obama folks in disguise.

Also Gramsci, you are made of win. Classic lyric. Although I was thinking more along the lines of "I'm like Zorro, I mark a B in your back..."



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