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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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Dan Savage on Colbert

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nov 12 2008, 10:25 AM ET Comment

Thanks for the tip from Destro...

Colbert: The black man's keeping you down

Savage: A few black men have kept me down in the past
Dead. Wrong. So wrong.

 


UPDATE: Yes, yes, I know Savage was making a joke about sex. I was laughing along. I didn't mean he was literally wrong. I've done this before. Is it really that rare to use "dead wrong" ironically? Is this, like, only a hip-hop/Biggie Smalls thing?  Between this and the Maureen Dowd thing, I think I need to try being appallingly earnest for at least a week. But then...I'd have nothing to say...


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